Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: March 26, 2021

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“I don’t think my glory will ever be greater. Everywhere there is a passionate curiosity about me.” When Dostoevsky rolled up to the St. Petersburg literary scene (like the hotel bar at AWP or something). | Lit Hub Biography

Fleeting narrators and disappearing text: Daniel Heller-Roazen tries to pin down a little-known short story by Franz Kafka. | Lit Hub Criticism

How E.O. Wilson’s concern over species extinction, population decline, and habitat loss on Earth converged in his writing. | Lit Hub Nature

“Perhaps we return to the lives of tragic literary ladies for less savory reasons, too: because ultimately, we still enjoy rubbernecking at female pain.” Kelsey Osgood on the trope of Tragic Literary Woman. | Lit Hub

A biography of Francis Bacon, a history of female TV pioneers, and a darkly comic Japanese workplace novel all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

WATCH: Danielle Evans, Megan Giddings, and Deesha Philyaw perform at the Franklin Park Virtual Reading Series. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“When I translate, I feel as if I’m in another dimension.” Ilan Stavans talks to Peter Cole about the art of translation. | Lit Hub Translation

“We, too, are sitting around the fire. We, as readers, exist as audiences and participants. We are implicated.” Katie Yee on Diane Cook, Lydia Millet, and the language of climate fiction. | LARB

“The best way I know to understand her, the site where my retina and hers overlap, is in language.” Rhea Ramakrishnan on her grandmother and the relationship between language and colonization. | Ploughshares

INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: The senior editors of NOON pull back the curtain on running a nonprofit lit mag and how to submit. | Lit Hub

Finland has a national epic poem that contains forest demons, wolves that stalk the deadlands, and a divine maiden who gets pregnant by the wind—and you can read a translation of it right this way. | Public Domain Review

The story of Roberta Saltzman, who built a legendary library of Jewish cookbooks from the past and present—the largest in the world. | Atlas Obscura

Emily Bernard revisits Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking explorations of power, racism, and the body in her writing. | New Republic

“Words that my ancestors sung to cope under white supremacy have the same power for me, and I can carry them wherever I go.” Leah Nicole Whitcomb on the power of gospel music. | The Rumpus

Translator James Byrne highlights literary activism amid the military violence in Myanmar. | World Literature Today

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Michael Favala Goldman talks to Catherine Lacey about translating
Tove Ditlevsen, on Well-Versed with FSG. 

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Deborah Levy discusses the retrospective mood of the pandemic,
on How to Proceed. 

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Paul Holdengräber celebrates one year of The Quarantine Tapes with a special episode featuring reflections of our last year. 

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On The Literary Life, P. Scott Cunningham talks to Mitchell Kaplan about
the O, Miami Poetry Festival and National Poetry Month.

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B. Divya asks how long we’re going to distinguish between humans, cyborgs,
and AI, on New Books Network. 

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Laurence Bergreen on Francis Drake the pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the age
of empires, on Keen On.

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