Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 19, 2021

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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

Chang-rae Lee talks about writing as a bodily experience, on First Draft. 

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Francis Lam on the social experience of food during these

pandemic times, on Beyond the Page.

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What it’s like to read Thucydides in 2021, on The History of Literature. 

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Mustafa Akyol discusses the Islamic Enlightenment, on Keen On. 

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Lauren Oakes considers the meeting place of scientific knowledge

and Indigenous ways of knowing, on Emergence Magazine. 

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How white explorers convinced themselves they were discoverers,
not conquerors, on Time to Eat the Dogs.

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