Lit Hub Daily: Revisiting Laurie Colwin’s Manhattan

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“Feeling afraid to obey the demands of your own heart? Is there anything more human?” Jennifer Finney Boylan considers Henry David Thoreau and the risks we take to live our full truth. | Lit Hub Memoir

Celebrating Laurie Colwin’s Manhattan (and what makes her newly reissued fiction so relevant today). | Lit Hub Criticism

“I have no memory of life before I was a Mets fan, and no memory of not being a Mankiewicz.” Nick Davis on fandom and his renowned family. | Lit Hub Memoir

Emily Itami reflects on how music prepared her for the (pain, humiliation, and sometimes joy) of the writing life. | Lit Hub Music

Megan Marshall remembers her late friend Lois Palken Rudnick, a biographer who left her mark on the genre. | Lit Hub

The Spectacular author Zoe Whittall on Judy Blume, Bluets, and hating The Handmaid’s Tale. | Book Marks

On Keen On, Thom Hartmann discusses the shameful history of American healthcare. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“Translators aren’t like ninjas.” Jennifer Croft explains the necessity of naming translators on book covers. | The Guardian 

“From ribald cracks to grammar lessons to ornate religious puzzles,” Adrienne Raphel deconstructs the Old English riddle. | The New York Times

adrienne maree brown breaks down the connection between organizing and science fiction. | Vulture

Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his new novel, his writing process, and crafting female characters. | The Millions

Meg Bernhard on how climate change has changed the taste of wine. | Catapult

Deesha Philyaw takes a closer look at her award-winning short story collection. | Ploughshares 

Two new books reflect on publishing as a radical practice. | Hyperallergic

Brands Mean a Lot is a weekly commentary on branding covering everything from home office playsets to menthol cigarette bans. Crappy illustrations included to drive the point home. Get it for free.

Anna Qu talks betrayal, immigration, and assimilation, on Otherppl. 

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Robert Olen Butler on the kinesthetic experience

of writing, on First Draft. 

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The History of Literature chooses the top ten

greatest literary centuries. 

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Listen to a narrated essay by Charles Foster about communing with the more-than-human, on Emergence Magazine.  

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