Lit Hub Daily: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose
Lit Hub Daily September 15, 2021
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“The literature of the voice is dying. The literature of the pose has arrived. The basis of literary style has shifted.” Stephen Marche on Sally Rooney and contemporary fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
T.C. Boyle recommends working through writer’s block with a few (metaphorical) bags of prunes. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
Vince Passaro recommends books that grapple with New York City as “literary character, literary machine, psychological event.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Eliot had come to believe that the depiction of “things that never existed—the ‘writing of novels’—might itself be a way of making the world better.” Rebecca Mead on Middlemarch. | Lit Hub Criticism
Idle chatter: Maria Tatar on why we should all be gossips. | Lit Hub
Andrea Abi-Karam considers the importance of radical ekphrasis, a way of speaking to the dead through artmaking. | Lit Hub
Vesper Flights, Money, The Wind in the Willows, and more rapid-fire book recs from Leif Enger. | Book Marks
Katie Lattari with five books in which paintings reveal surprising emotional truths. | CrimeReads
On Keen On, Giulio Boccaletti on how water shapes society, and Minal Bopaiah on equity as the foundation for group success. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel A reading list in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. | CLMP
Peril, the forthcoming book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals just how close Mike Pence was to upending American democracy for his friend Donald Trump. | Washington Post
Hannah Giorgis on the untold stories of iconic Black TV shows. | The Atlantic
“I have a sense of normal being, you know, vast—vast and all inclusive.” Helen Shaw profiles Ruth Ozeki. | Vulture
Maddie Crum considers Simone de Beauvoir’s Inseparable, and the perils of posthumous publication. | The Baffler
Ryan M. Moser, a poet incarcerated in Florida, addresses depression in correctional facilities, “a real but unspoken problem.” | Mental Hellth
Chelsea T. Hicks pays tribute to N. Scott Momaday, who “offers readers a beguiling mixture of sacredness and irreverence.” | The Paris Review
“Yearning for connection is an undercurrent throughout Groff’s work.” Reading Lauren Groff’s new novel, Matrix. | Chicago Review of Books
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