Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 19, 2021
Lit Hub Daily April 19, 2021
TODAY: In 1832, José Echegaray, Spanish playwright and Nobel Laureate, is born.
How a 33-year-old Catholic priest with an astronomy degree convinced Einstein that the universe is always expanding. | Lit Hub Science
Why does walking help us think? Jeremy DeSilva looks to great writers, from Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, for answers. | Lit Hub
“The internet turned Florida Man into a Southern Gothic figure of indulgence, decadence, and bad decision making.” Tyler Gillespie traces the rise and fall of an infamous (and damaging) meme. | Lit Hub
INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Everything you need to know about The Kenyon Review. | Lit Hub
KT Sparks revisits some of literature’s legendary graceless exits, from Jane Austen’s rejected Mr. Collins to Winnie-the-Pooh. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“Love Ukraine as you would the sun.”Kate Tsurkan spotlights Ukrainian authors in translation. | Lit Hub
The man who cried gold: How Lying George Carmack set off the Klondike Gold Rush—once everyone actually believed him. | Lit Hub History
From climate change to car-crash sex: a look back at five classic J.G. Ballard novels. | Book Marks
Your week in virtual book events, featuring Camille Dungy, Gina Frangello, and the second annual National Antiracist Book Festival. | Lit Hub Behemoths of destruction: Judith Nies on the capitalist interests of engineering billionaire Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., Republican politics, and the story of Black Mesa. | Arrowsmith Journal
“This is the gift that Wesley Brown gives to his readers: a new way to speak, a language that we have to excavate and rescue from murky depths.” Rereading Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic. | The New Yorker
The country has mourned more than half a million COVID casualties largely in private. Zoé Samudzi wonders if “an unobstructed engagement with death [would] make these deaths less unfathomable.” | Ssense
Why are Soviet-era children’s books in such high demand in India these days? | Atlas Obscura
Herman Melville: culinary inspiration? Valerie Stivers considers the writer’s legacy and replicates the chowder dishes in Moby-Dick. | The Paris Review
“People have asked me, ‘What’s it like, being the first intersex poet?’ ... I’m just the first one you know exists.” Matt Mitchell addresses writing, gender, and intersex identity in a conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib. | Hooligan Mag
As an art collector, Roxane Gay “prioritize[s] work by Black artists, and then women artists and queer artists and artists of color.” | Artnet
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
Chang-rae Lee talks about writing as a bodily experience, on First Draft. * Francis Lam on the social experience of food during these pandemic times, on Beyond the Page. * What it’s like to read Thucydides in 2021, on The History of Literature. * Mustafa Akyol discusses the Islamic Enlightenment, on Keen On. * Lauren Oakes considers the meeting place of scientific knowledge and Indigenous ways of knowing, on Emergence Magazine. * How white explorers convinced themselves they were discoverers,
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