Lit Hub Daily: Eileen Myles Follows Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City

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“I love this big horny red painting because it’s bitch work. It’s tooth and claw.” Eileen Myles follows Joan Mitchell’s path through New York City and wonders why they never met (spoiler: it’s misogyny). | Lit Hub Art

Jay Gabler tells a long, sad story of failed sci-fi adaptations and wonders if the new Foundation series, based on Isaac Asimov’s trilogy, will finally break the curse. | Lit Hub TV

On Bessie Smith’s bewitching blues and nuanced legacy. | Lit Hub Music

How did we end up with the lazy stoner stereotype? According to Josiah Hesse, the “answer to that question begins with an ambitious racist looking for some job security.” | Lit Hub History

Telling family stories is one thing, Kei Miller writes, but “how does one begin to tell silence?” | Lit Hub Memoir

When Buckingham Palace stopped hosting debutante parties, kicking off panic that the Season was over forever. | Lit Hub History

As miraculous as it is quotidian: Farah Jasmine Griffin considers Black love and her parents’ enduring marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir

Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

Richie Narvaez on on the life and work of Edwin Torres, the Nuyorican author of Carlito’s Way, Q&A, and After Hours. | CrimeReads

WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi in conversation with Antonio Aiello · Sathnam Sangeera on Britain’s imperialist foundations · Connor Towne O’Neill on the ugly legacy of white supremacy. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Is the rise of “influencer publishing” good for books? | The New Statesman

Listen to this interview with Brandon Taylor, who discusses the tensions of everyday relationships, writing from a Black and queer perspective, and his intended audience. | NPR

Alexandra Kleeman unpacks the creative choices behind her new novel. | Bustle

“Is it even possible, or relevant, to speak of a ‘poetry world’?” David Schurman Wallace considers John Ashbery in the age of social media. | The Drift

Peter Wayne Moe considers the pleasure of rereading Moby Dick. | The Millions

Bad Blood author John Carreyrou discusses the Elizabeth Holmes trial. | The New Yorker

A school board in Pennsylvania has backtracked on its plan to bar a number of books by authors of color from classroom use. | The Guardian

Richard Powers speaks about his new book and wonders if the arts are “the most transformative kind of empathy machine we have.” | Kirkus

Zaina Arafat on how the film Sliding Doors has influenced

her entire life, on Open Form. 

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Nichole Perkins on tracing her life through pop culture,
on The Maris Review. 

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Bill Goldstein has some thoughts on what you should read next,
on Just the Right Book. 

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Megan Abbott talks about the tortured, insular worlds of ballet and gymnastics, on Book Dreams.

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Lucie Elven divulges her intuitive, unique writing process,
on Otherppl.

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Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on depictions of the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on Fiction/Non/Fiction. 

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Séan Scullion on the Spanish volunteers who fought with the British army during WWII, on We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

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