Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2021

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Because every day needs to be Earth Day: 365 books to start your climate change library: The Classics, The Science, The Art, The Ideas. | Lit Hub

Attempting to decode Manhattan: get lost in this collection of maps and diagrams that chart postwar skyscrapers, the types of people who attend Fashion Week, and much more. | Lit Hub History

So why should we read, anyway? Will Self has some thoughts. | Lit Hub

“Our only crime is to have taken the path that leads to Europe.” Emmanuel Mbolela reflects on the dangerous plight of migrants, including her own exile from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Lit Hub Memoir

Turns out, 19th-century socialites threw parties that would put Gatsby to shame. | Lit Hub History

“I didn’t want to be that person who saw something that I could change… and turned away.” Jo Napolitano on the activists who challenged a Pennsylvania school district’s xenophobic enrollment policies. | Lit Hub

To celebrate Earth Day 2021, Olivia Rutigliano recommends 50 of the best new nonfiction books about the natural world. | Book Marks

Cate Holohan on hackers, home devices, and technology’s slow creep into domesticity. | CrimeReads

Audrey Clare Farley on the eugenicists who weaponized biology and made forced sterilization a grim reality in the US. | Lit Hub History

“[The work] is not something that I’m trying to do as a rebuttal of the white gaze—it’s honestly something I don’t give a shit about.” Camonghne Felix talks to Barry Jenkins about adapting The Underground Railroad. | Vanity Fair

Serious allegations against Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey continue to surface. | The New York Times

Randy Boyagoda considers autobiographical experience in literature, Godshot, and Via Negativa. | Image Journal

Mary Norris climbs aboard the “Grammarama ride at Disneyland for Nerds”—AKA the “Taming the Tongue: In the Heyday of English Grammar (1713-1851),” an exhibit on the history of English grammar books. | The New Yorker

Critic J. R. Ramakrishnan examines how comps aid a translator’s pitch. | Words Without Borders

“As the closures gathered velocity, I began to pursue her, and I imagined that she was courting me too.” On reading the domestic novels of Magda Szabó during the pandemic. | The Point

On Giacomo da Lentini—the “engineer of the modern sonnet”—and the poetic possibilities of heresy. | JSTOR Daily

“The rules of a world almost dystopian in its peril fell into place, and I felt compelled to write into that setting.” Alena Dillon on the challenges of fictionalizing sexual assault. | Lit Hub Craft

Cynthia Ozick muses on why “we are all in thrall to plot, the unexpected and often exciting turnings of events that call out from every source of life.” | LARB

Our new film podcast, Open Form, kicks off with Brit Bennett
on Undercover Brother and the bygone comedy of racial misunderstanding.

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Debra Winger talks about reframing loss after COVID,
on The Quarantine Tapes.

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On the 100th episode of The Maris Review, Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker,
and Emma Straub discuss the life of a writer in NYC. 

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Bishop Michael B. Curry on hopeful lessons from the Civil Rights Movement,
on Just the Right Book. 

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Matthew Salesses on centering traditionally marginalized writers

in workshop, on Fiction/Non/Fiction. 

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Why don’t we talk more about sibling estrangement? The latest from Keen On. 

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On Finnegan and Friends, Katherine O’Callaghan explains
the mythical Irish contexts of Finnegans Wake.

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Steve Ballinger on removing the remains of war 80 years later,
on We Have Ways of Making You Talk. 

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Megan Rosenbloom on the history of books bound in human skin,
on Book Dreams. 

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So, is a gnome a fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi has the answer on NewberyTart.

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