Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 18, 2021

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Alex McElroy on trans self-acceptance narratives, and the hope that “someday there won’t be anything unusual or revelatory about them.” | Lit Hub

Tuesday just got infinitely better, thanks to these these 20 new books. | The Hub

Slaughterhouse-Five and the 20th-century apocalypse: a 1969 review of Kurt Vonnegut’s iconic anti-war novel. | Book Marks

Zachary Karabell on the financial firm Brown Brothers Harriman, whose saga is “a window into the crucial nexus of money, power and influence that made America.” | Lit Hub History

Courtney Zoffness pays tribute to Stephen Dixon, whose commitment to genuineness—and his typewriter—shaped students and readers. | Lit Hub

“Black boys had to show through our behavior that we were undeniably, incontrovertibly the most male.” Brian Broome considers the one-two punch of gender and racial identity. | Lit Hub Memoir

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper on Hasidic fear of gentrification, and the zealous anti-hipster campaign in Williamsburg. | Lit Hub Politics

WATCH: On Personal Space, Lilly Dancyger talks to Sari Botton about the physical and emotional tolls of writing memoir. | The Virtual Book Channel

In 1914, Pancho Villa had the federales on the run. That’s when he decided the revolution needed a movie star. From Jeff Guinn. | CrimeReads

“Ours has always been the gender of endurance, of resistance. Not that we had a choice.” Virginie Despentes on continuing the feminist revolution. | Lit Hub

“In the culture of medicine, doctors believe they treat all patients the same. The data indicate otherwise.” Dr. Robert Pearl on racial bias and inequity in healthcare. | Lit Hub Health

“The idea that this is ancient history–it never felt ancient to me. I’m one generation away.” Brit Bennet discusses The Vanishing Half, the concept of passing, and white liberal racism. | The Guardian

Suzanne Enzerink revisits Mulholland Drive, which “remains as much of a mystery as it was on the balmy spring day it was released.” | LARB

David Yoon drew on his experience in tech to write his first adult novel, which “started off as a horror novel—like, straight-up dystopia.” | Kirkus Reviews

“Younger maintains all of the starry eyed glamour of the book world, and very little of its heartache.” Maris Kreizman on Younger as publishing world fan fiction. | Town & Country

How Vasily Grossman's epic novel Life and Fate—confiscated by the KGB in 1961—was finally published in 1988. | JSTOR

“I don’t think there is any greater loneliness than looking directly at the untamable fury of our world.” Kristen Radtke on listening to loneliness. | New York Times

Bolu Babalola recommends the best romance books for summer. | Jezebel

Laurie Frankel reads from her forthcoming novel,

One Two Three, on Storybound.

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On Lit Century, Sandra and Catherine discuss Valley of the Dolls
and midcentury American literature’s preoccupation with scandalous sex.

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So Many Damn books goes on a Patricia Highsmith deep read. 

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Is caring the new networking? Jon Levy guests on Keen On.

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