Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2021

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“I think most writers live half lives. You’re half in your life and half in your head.” Read an interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie. | Lit Hub

Marc Hamer on following the Vita Sackville-West school of gardening: “It feels good to let somebody else make the decisions for a while.” | Lit Hub Nature

Ashley Nelson Levy wonders how the pandemic might change motherhood literature into “something less about art and ambivalence and more on the loneliness born of this time.” | Lit Hub

As more tourists flock to the beach, they’re wreaking havoc—and raising questions about who owns the seaside, anyway. | Lit Hub Nature

Ian Dreiblatt recommends modern books set in ancient times, featuring the Roman Empire and partying in the days of Cleopatra. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“In the end, we are all working with the inherent unreliability of people.” Emily Midorikawa on the task of writing a truthful biography based on unreliable witnesses. | Lit Hub Craft

Dracula, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and more rapid-fire book recs from Ruth Ware. | Book Marks

S.A. Lelchuk with nine great thrillers featuring alter egos. | CrimeReads

Why Jessica Anya Blau’s novel is an ode to Anne Tyler and her characters: “outsiders, weirdos, outcasts, and loners, all from Baltimore.” | Lit Hub

“Ghosts feel distinctly Korean to me, and they’re something I’ve shared closely with my mother.” Alex Sujong Laughlin considers the power of ghost stories and the Korean diaspora. | Harper’s Bazaar

Larissa Pham talks about Pop Song and memoir writing. | Full Stop

“If Abrams is a skilled agitator and resetter of expectations, it is in large part because she has the capacity to imagine alternate realities.” Ayana Mathis tells the story of Stacey Abrams’ career as a novelist. | The Atlantic

What does it mean to be a “Bennington girl”? Jill Eisenstadt examines that ubiquitous stereotype of an “artistic, sexually bold, brilliant or flaky, monied, spooky, (probably communist) free spirit.” | Guernica

Carmen Maria Machado responds to the parents and school boards seeking to ban her memoir, In the Dream House. | The New York Times

How much do writers make for their books? Sarah Nicolas looks at the numbers. | Book Riot

As a Trinidadian author, Celeste Mohammed says her intention is “to represent the mood and the ethos of the current time, and the irony of how sun, sea, and sand coexist with dark shadows.” | The Rumpus

“Everything behind you is part of your present tense, and you don’t want to forsake it.” Rachel Kushner guests on Thresholds. 

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Elissa Washuta talks to Brad Listi on Otherppl about 

tweeting her way to her voice. 

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Co-hosts Jennie and Marcy discuss the missing racial history in the 1991 Newbery Award-winner Maniac Magee, on NewberyTart. 

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Josh Linkner on the secret to creativity unlocked by pointillism, on Keen On.

Literary novelist Elle Griffin delves into The New York Times Best Seller list—and why your book won't make it—in this excerpt from her weekly newsletter about writing (and other things) called The Novelleist. [sponsored]

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