Lit Hub Daily: How New Yorkers Turned to Poetry After 9/11

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 9/11: How New Yorkers turned to poetry in their grief and resilience · Remembering the mariners who ferried New Yorkers to safety · Sasha Sagan on the sea-change of our news cycle and watching history through the eyes of her daughter · Joe Woolhead on documenting the chaos of that morning, and the eventual rebuild. | Lit Hub

Considering Tolstoy’s changing notions about brutality and war, as espoused through one of his most famous characters. | Lit Hub Criticism

“God forgive me if this letter is ever opened by mistake.” Read an, ahem, steamy letter from Henry Miller to Anaïs Nin. | Lit Hub

“The ivory tower is ivory for a reason; it is not ebony, it is not the color of honey, nor the color of café con leche, and I was never meant to thrive there.” Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez on white supremacy in higher education. | Lit Hub

Ellen Feldman on fictionalizing the Ritchie Boys, German-Jewish refugees who went undercover during WWII. | Lit Hub History

Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, and Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks

WATCH: Rob Reich on how to control technology. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Lauren Groff considers the books that have made an impact on her life. | Elle

“Spontaneity is learning.” Leanne Shapton on visual knowledge and the power of browsing. | Curbed

In the new issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Beth Kephart, Marion Winik, and more consider the wedding dress. | Dorothy Parker's Ashes

Samuel Moyn discusses post-9/11 hysteria, US imperialism, and the pretext of humanitarianism. | The Drift

Meet Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s first Black poet laureate. | NPR

Announcing the winner of the 2021 Words Without Borders Ottaway Award. | Words Without Borders

Kayleb Rae Candrilli breaks down the meaning of acts of creative recovery under capitalism. | Poetry Foundation 

“Even though it’s a picture that Chicagoans might not find flattering, I think it’s an honest portrayal.” Sandra Cisneros on writing about her hometown. | Chicago Magazine

Les Standiford on the circus as a formative American institution,

on The Literary Life. 

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S. Qiouyi Lu discusses surveillance technology, experimental narratives, and neopronouns, on New Books Network.

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