Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 15, 2021
Lit Hub Daily April 15, 2021
TODAY: In 2000, iconic illustrator Edward Gorey dies.
Chelsea Wald traces the global history of urban sewer systems, which civilized some cities and brought out the murderers in others. | Lit Hub History
“I write every weekday morning. And often in the afternoon. And sometimes before dinner.” In other words, Paul Theroux is always writing. | Lit Hub
“If any place was to reflect the new world order, the recognition that women counted, shouldn’t public radio be that place?” Lisa Napoli looks back at four women who changed broadcast journalism. | Lit Hub
Bruno Lloret recommends six Latin American novels that break with tradition. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
While librarians may be “unassuming, cardigan-wearing bookworms,” M.E. Hilliard says, they’re also natural-born detectives. | CrimeReads
Rumaan Alam on Ishiguro, Merve Emre on “emotional intelligence,” and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks “As Taylor saw it, the connections being made between racist violence, US empire, and austerity in this iteration of Black Lives Matter were proof of progress. The election? Much less so.” Read a profile of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. | Lux
Stephen Walker tells the story of the first USSR cosmonauts, who—unlike America’s celebrity astronauts—trained in an ultra-secret facility hidden deep A look back: During the 1918 flu pandemic, libraries became vital providers of public health information. | JSTOR Daily
Passion, misplaced trust, and consequences are at the forefront of this reading list of revenge stories. | The Guardian
High school teacher Paola Capó-García explores the challenges and opportunities of high school poetry in the age of Zoom. | Teachers & Writers
What poetry can teach novelists: a roundup from Caroline Hardaker. | Lit Hub
“Many settlers were keen on borrowing these words, even as they killed the people who coined them.” Joshua Jelly-Shapiro on the Indigenous languages with which New York City’s places were named. | The New Yorker
Before Stonewall, there was the Black Cat Tavern: Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on the first gay rally against police violence in America. | Lit Hub History
Although her first two books were works of nonfiction, Morgan Jerkins says she “always wanted to be a fiction writer.” | Shondaland
Here’s how Maria Kuznetsova conducted the historical research for her new novel, Something Unbelievable. | Full Stop
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
Melissa Febos talks about reckoning with the pain of girlhood, * Tess Lewis and Naveen Kishore discuss the politics and ethics of translation, on The Quarantine Tapes. * On Book Dreams, Simon Winchester advises against eating polar bear liver. * How Ashley Bryan’s 40-year secret inspired the category-defying Infinite Hope, this week on NewberyTart. * Finnegan and Friends dives into the watery language of Finnegans Wake. * Will the AIs really be kind to us? Ximena Vengoechea considers the art * UC Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ talks creating institutional change, on Change Lab.
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“I CAME TO THINK OF MY GRIEF AS BOTTOMLESS”
From Adam Mansbach’s memoir in verse, I Had a Brother Once. |
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