Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2021
Lit Hub Daily May 7, 2021
TODAY: In 1812, English poet Robert Browning is born.
Phoebe S.K. Young considers how companies brand The Great Outdoors (i.e. aggressively), and COVID’s impact on our concept of camping. | Lit Hub Nature
Maggie Shipstead takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire, and confesses that she still hasn’t read War and Peace (no judgment). | Lit Hub Questionnaires
“He had so many more stories to write, but the happy message he included in his final book’s acknowledgements was, ‘Best. Career. Ever.’” Sara Camilli, Eric Jerome Dickey’s agent of 25 years, reflects on the writer’s legacy. | Lit Hub
INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: ZYZZYVA editor Laura Cogan on the “romantic endeavor” of publishing a literary magazine. | Lit Hub
Marianne Goldsmith recounts protesting the 1973 Chilean military coup with Kay Boyle, who years before had been blacklisted by American publishers during the McCarthy era. | Lit Hub Biography
In search of hidden stories: Chanel Cleeton recommends eight books about little-known moments from history. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
New titles by Rachel Cusk, Andy Weir, Alison Bechdel, and Olivia Laing all feature among the Best Reviewed Book of the Week. | Book Marks
Murder on the roof of the world: Paul French on the crime books of Mongolia. | CrimeReads
“If we’re lucky, we find our mentors, our teachers, and our community.” Gail Reitano pays tribute to Kim Chernin. | Lit Hub “Lahirism cannot be divorced from an associated politics—the politics of respectability.” Sanjena Sathian on good immigrant novels and the shadow cast by Jhumpa Lahiri. | The Drift
July Blalack considers the landscape of contemporary Mauritanian literature. | Words Without Borders
Forty years after Lucille Clifton lost her house to foreclosure, her children bought it back and plan to turn it into a space for emerging and established artists and writers. | Harper’s BAZAAR
“Like most women who write, I live my life according to the firmly stated judgments of literary men.” On the long tradition of “helpful men” who dismiss women’s writing. | The Nation
Eliza Kostelanetz Schrader rereads Stone Butch Blues and embraces an identity that “isn’t static but continues to twist and turn.” | Guernica
“Can lessons from the past help guide independent booksellers and their patrons as they navigate a book world in flux?” Seth Kimmel asks. | Public Books
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After the genocide, how much Armenian art remains? This week, on Open Source. * Hanif Abdurraqib discusses censoring the desires of whiteness in storytelling, on The Literary Life. * Deborah Lindsay Williams urges us to ask better questions about the status quo, on The Common. * Niall Ferguson on the dangers of focusing on a single disaster scenario, on Keen On. * Greta Kelly talks beauty as weaponry, on New Books Network.
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