Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2021

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Emily Temple reports back on The Underground Railroad, streaming today, and how Barry Jenkins’ stranger, alienating cinematic prose works with Colson Whitehead’s prose-prose. | Lit Hub TV

Pride and Property: Phyllis Richardson on the homes that influenced Austen’s writing, from the rectory at Steventon to Chawton cottage. | Lit Hub

Tobias Carroll rereads the malleable, unpredictable work of M. John Harrison, the best genre-busting writer you’ve never heard of. | Lit Hub Criticism

INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: A behind-the-scenes look at Tin House, which manages to be aspirational and approachable all at once. | Lit Hub

Remembering Costello’s: How an Irish barman left his mark on the New York literary world. | Lit Hub  

WATCH: Patricia Lockwood, Jillian Weise, Khalisa Rae, and Gina Nutt perform at the Franklin Park Reading Series. | The Virtual Book Channel 

Take a mystery reader’s road trip up California’s Highway 99, guided by Jane Rosenthal. | CrimeReads

New titles by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Stacey Abrams, and Edmund de Waal all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

Katherine St. John recommends her five favorite novels about Hollywood and aspiring stars. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

How the singular “they” saved Isaac Wheeler’s Ukrainian-to-English translation of Serhiy Zhadan’s novel The Orphanage. | Lit Hub Translation

Barry Jenkins discusses The Underground Railroad, the horrors of American history, and avoiding the exploitation of Black trauma in art. | BuzzFeed News

Kiese Laymon explores “the paradoxes of revision, restoration, and repair” in Black friendships. | New York Magazine

“For me, the secret to surviving parenthood is the same as the secret to surviving anything tough/demanding: community.” Nicole Chung on letting go of illusions in parenting, and saying yes to dessert. | Raising Mothers 

“Writing is not a reflection of the self but its transmutation. The act requires externalizing the contents of one’s mind into a new form that can be seen and understood by someone else.” Meghan O’Gieblyn considers the limits of
self-knowledge. | The Paris Review

“The spirit of manifest destiny has been rebranded into the travelogue.” Rosa Boshier breaks down the relationship between capitalism, appropriation, and place. | Catapult

Hoa Nguyen describes writing poetry as “a way to sing forward again, to sing that beingness, untied from injury or despite injury.” | LARB

“I’m interested in reading broadly, but I want to first and foremost read the work of Black women writers.” Newly appointed Triangle House literary agent Kima Jones on finding new works by marginalized writers. | Okayplayer

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]

Cambria Gordon talks about the lost art of penmanship (and more),

on The Literary Life.

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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan on neoliberal exclusion in India’s COVID-19 crisis:
this week on Open Source. 

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Why political unity isn’t the goal: Nathan Bomey guests on Keen On.

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Bonnie MacBird talks about expanding the Sherlock canon,
on New Books Network.

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