Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 13, 2021

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“I am delighted to finally read Austen, but you cannot make me drink tea.” How a pandemic reading project turned Josh Raff into a Janeite—and why it took him so long to get there. | Lit Hub

“Sitting has saved my life, steadied relationships, enabled me to keep going in phases of the utter worst.” Antonia Pont in praise of Sitting (but definitely not Meditating). | Lit Hub

“I thought: Oh, thank God. There are gay women in heaven. I did not even feel daunted that she was Virginia Woolf.” We’ll have what Rachel Eisendrath’s having (the apparitions, that is). | Lit Hub

Joshua Corey on what we can learn about our current crises from the “macabre and tantalizing waltz” of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. | Lit Hub  

“Now that those fantastical birds had been presented as a reasonable proposition, of course I wanted one.” Sean Flynn sets out to purchase a peacock (or three). | Lit Hub Nature

RED INK ROUNDTABLE: Jo Ann Beard, Katherine Angel, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jeannine Ouellette discuss how desire propels the writing life. | Lit Hub

80 crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, and nonfiction books to keep you reading all summer long. | CrimeReads

Sarah Broom on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, John Banville on Graham Greene, Lauren Oyler on Torrey Peters, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

Martha C. Nussbaum on the “big, borderless workplace” of the art world, which lets abusers believe their genius is greater than rules. | Lit Hub  

When did mountain climbing become equivalent with business success? Margaret Grebowicz traces it back to the 1996 Everest disaster. | Lit Hub Nature

“The minute you acknowledge the existence of a white audience, you find yourself othering your own subjectivity. You become object.” Brandon Taylor on autofiction and Black subjectivity. | Sweater Weather

Josh Hawley’s new book about big tech is “a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.” | The New Republic

“Enclosing the calamity of extinction within the cloistered space of the first person, these novels represent alienation as an inescapable fact.” On the literature of climate anxiety. | The Drift

“I have to fight being subsumed into the system, and I don’t always do that.” Alison Bechdel analyzes power, separatism, and gaining mainstream recognition. | Vulture

The Dublin townhouse that served as the setting for James Joyce’s “The Dead” will be converted into a hostel, over opposition from writers and cultural groups. | The New York Times

The Prix Albertine Jeunesse, a reader’s choice award, invites children to choose their favorite book from a selection of works of Francophone youth literature that are available in English translation. Vote now!

Robert Townsend... greatest American filmmaker?
Nate Marshall makes the case, on Open Form. 

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Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on starting all over again, on The Maris Review. 

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Natasha Lennard on how to exorcise the ghost of Trump, on Keen On. 

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Elissa Washuta talks about composing a three-act structure
in her new essay collection, on Reading Women. 

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On Book Dreams, Rebecca Falkoff discusses hoarding as a disavowal of mortality.

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John Freeman on the value of collaboration, on The Quarantine Tapes. 

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