Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2021

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Kate Aronoff draws a straight line from the Green New Deal back to FDR’s New Deal, which “reimagined what the US government could do, what it was for, and who it served.” | Lit Hub Politics

Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Here are seven author-owned bookstores that should be on your radar. | Lit Hub Bookstores

Lilly Dancyger considers the validation that an Ivy League grad school degree can offer... and everything else it can cost. | Lit Hub Memoir

“Unless I communicate what my identity is, readers may assume I’m white.” Ursula Pike on the fine line between a signifier and a trope. | Lit Hub Craft

Aija Mayrock recommends transcendental women poets, including Qiu Jin and Lucille Clifton. | Lit Hub Poetry

“I had wanted the producer to explore with me how the lynching story of my history might be a part of my psyche and my conception story.” Cassandra Lane on motherhood and the weight of memory. | Lit Hub Memoir

“The more you look, the more you see.” Sabina Stent takes a deep dive into the playful surrealism of The Thomas Crown Affair. | CrimeReads

New titles by Richard Wright, Jenny Diski, and Anthony Bourdain all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

“The things that mark you will come out in your work; they’re like horses fleeing a burning barn, and you have to be ready to ride them.” How time in the ICU influenced Paul Griner’s novel. | Lit Hub Craft 

WATCH: Get a sneak peek of Mission Creek Festival’s lineup, kicking off virtually next week, with Gina Nutt reading from Night Rooms. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Alexander Chee offers advice for listening to your inner writer’s voice (because chances are, it’s there). | Medium

“This is a town of lies, of make-believe, which even invented a word to describe its natural tendency to embellish: galéjades.” François Thomazeau takes a walk through Marseille. | The Markaz Review

How Peter Mark Roget went from ambivalent medical school graduate to thesaurus daddy. | Smithsonian Magazine

Harsha Walia talks about her new book, Border and Rule, and the possibilities of a border-free globe. | The Nation

From “brogurt” to Guy Fieri: Emily J. H. Contois considers consumer culture and how food is marketed to men. | Bitch Media

If you miss small talk, you’re not the only one. | The Walrus

“This place itself creates stories.” Hear from the owners of New Orleans’ Faulkner House Books. | Very Local New Orleans

Robbie Arnott on creating a mythical creature that embodies the “beauty and savagery of nature,” on New Books Network. 

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Trevor Paglen talks about the changing meaning of images under

the pandemic, on The Quarantine Tapes. 

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The Literary Disco crew discusses Brandon Hobson’s The Removed
and whether post-2020 fiction might be escapist or corrective.

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Should college admissions be based on a lottery? Matt Feeney

makes a case, on Keen On. 

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