Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2021

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READINGS ON PALESTINE:  Philip Metres tries to imagine a way to talk about Israel and Palestine in America · Michael Chabon wanders around Gaza with the “tallest man in Ramallah” · George Abraham on how Palestinian writers can resist colonial narratives · On the richness of Palestinian science fiction · Susan Abulhawa on the many forms resistance can take · Noor Hindi writes against erasure · Ben Ehrenreich on the humiliations of occupation · Yasmin El-Rifae wonders where Palestine really begins · 10 histories of the Israel-Palestine conflict · Sahar Khalifeh on the education of women in Palestine · On what it means to strive for “normalcy” in the Occupied West Bank. 

“Dante’s Inferno begins: ‘Midway upon the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood.’ That was me, stumbling into Tinderworld.” Nancy Jo Sales on the hellscape of dating apps. | Lit Hub Memoir

Armchair catastrophist Jim Shepard reflects on the uncomfortable déjà vu of writing a pandemic novel pre-COVID 19. | Lit Hub Craft

Alexandra Kingston-Reese considers what we can learn about care work from the characters of Lorrie Moore and Ottessa Moshfegh. | Lit Hub Criticism

“Creation does always have a price. But the price doesn’t have to be your soul.” Bridget Collins against the myth of the tormented artist. | Lit Hub

James Grady remembers a surreal night in suburban DC, when he watched a Public Macho Standoff between Norman Mailer and G. Gordon Liddy. | Lit Hub

Bethanne Patrick recommends five books in translation you might have missed in April, featuring Bruno Lloret, Eva Meijer, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Anna Karenina, The Vanishing Half, Where the Wild Things Are, and more rapid-fire book recs from Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell. | Book Marks

Olivia Rutigliano reflects on the career of the late, great comic actor Charles Grodin, who brought the “straight man” persona to its knees. | CrimeReads

Barbara Becker on the lonely experience of infertility and miscarriage before social media, and the community she found, years later, online. | Lit Hub 

Olivette Otele examines the origins of white Europeans’ bigoted fascination with race, as seen in art and fiction. | Lit Hub History

“When I’m open to beauty’s true power, I believe it changes me for the better.” Torrey Peters considers moments of unexpected beauty. | Harper’s BAZAAR

Mary Beard talks to Katy Waldman about feminist translations, the fluidity of canons, and engaging with trolls. | The New Yorker 

In the midst of ongoing public reckonings, “book publishing is having an existential crisis.” | Vox 

Brian Broome considers masculinity, the history of racism in America, and the memory of his father. | NPR

Molly McGhee reflects on Dead Souls and the reality that “no matter how poor, there is money to be made from the dead.” | The Paris Review

Scott Ellsworth, who helped expose the events of the Tulsa race massacre to a national audience, discusses reparations and why “we do [students] a disservice by shielding them from the truth.” | Los Angeles Times

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C Pam Zhang talks to Jordan Kisner about the  psychic

idea of home, on Thresholds. 

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Courtney Zoffness on the characteristics that writers share, on Otherppl. 

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T Kira Madden discusses centering Pacific Island voices, on Reading Women. 

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Why Julia Franks created a (much-needed) children’s

literacy app, on NewberyTart.  

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Krystal Sutherland reads from her YA novel,

House of Hollow, on The Literary Salon.

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Do our minds have immune systems to protect us from infectious ideas?
Andy Norman guests on Keen On.

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