Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 10, 2021

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“These are stories of women who are in the process of transforming.” On the radical similarities of Alice Munro and Pedro Almódovar. | Lit Hub Criticism

On the redemption of Rudy Gobert, COVID Patient Zero of the NBA, and one incredibly surreal season of basketball. | Lit Hub Sports

Your week in virtual book events, including Philly’s 215 Literary Fest. | Lit Hub 

Rónán Hession reflects on being told that his debut novel is plotless, and what we mean by that description anyway. | Lit Hub Criticism

Kate Durbin talks to Chelsea Hodson about the Greek Chorus of objects on Hoarders, and the tension between fantasy and reality in America. | Lit Hub

“Maybe crime is eternal, but not the Camorra.” John Domini reckons with the impact of the Neapolitan Mafia on his family’s livelihood. | Lit Hub Memoir

INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Rachel Wiseman, managing editor of The Point, describes running a magazine that’s willing to “entertain sentiments like enthusiasm and reverence.” | Lit Hub 

Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Charlotte’s Web, and more rapid-fire book recs from Mary Morris. | Book Marks

Anna Dorn on the “hideous heirloom” passed down in her family, which she tried (and failed) to avoid: a career as a lawyer. | Lit Hub Memoir

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor considers Mariam Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project. | The New Yorker

So much for companionable solitude—Walden Pond is teeming with jellyfish. | Atlas Obscura

“Last year something massive came hurtling into view and exploded against the surface of daily life in the US.” Tobi Haslett on the uprising sparked by George Floyd’s murder. | n+1

This is how trans and nonbinary voice actors are radically changing the audiobook landscape. | BuzzFeed News

Sasha Banks on Black identity and the limitations of patriotism. | The Atlantic

Eileen Myles creates “their own private rendition” of a Berlin exhibition featuring photographer Peter Hujar and writer Moyra Davey. | The Paris Review

How jazz poetry grew from “roots in the Black experience.” | JSTOR Daily

The History of Literature explores the top ten cases of writer’s block, starting with Ralph Ellison’s 40-year fallow period after The Invisible Man. 

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Why Elizabeth McCracken loves ventriloquism and other weird

show business, on First Draft. 

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Jonathan Taplin thinks back to when music was in the vanguard

of political movements, on Keen On. 

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Suzanne Simard speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world, on Emergence Magazine.

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Eddie Glaude Jr. on what James Baldwin’s America teaches us, on Big Table.

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