Lit Hub Daily: On the Legacy of Colin Kaepernick
Lit Hub Daily September 20, 2021
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Nathaniel Philbrick retraces the steps of George Washington’s incognito presidential tour to Long Island. | Lit Hub History
“With Tišma, there is nothing ludic; his is a world beyond pleasure, beyond distraction.” David Rieff on Aleksandar Tišma’s third Holocaust novel, Kapo. | Lit Hub Criticism
Talk that plays like tennis: Dan O’Brien has some thoughts on how characters should speak. | Lit Hub Craft
Steven Reign on using research and documentary poetry to tell the real story of David Acer and AIDS panic in 1990s Florida. | Lit Hub
Aruni Kashyap on his introduction to and appreciation for the testimonio genre, a tool for “challenging the modern colonial state.” | Lit Hub Craft
Native Son, 2666, Don Quixote, and more rapid-fire book recs from Héctor Tobar. | Book Marks “These stories have survived the centuries because of their enduring appeal to something fundamental about our human nature.” On the pleasures of mythological reimaginings. | Esquire
Here are 75 queer and feminist books to read this fall. | Autostraddle
On the eroticism of Sally Rooney’s novels. | The Cut
Dylan Onderdonk-Snow considers death and the divine in Knausgaard’s recent work. | Soft Punk
Teresa Carmody discusses how to define autotheory, which can take the form of “performance, image, photography, video, or digital practice.” | LARB
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