Lit Hub Daily: Eileen Myles Follows Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City
Lit Hub Daily September 23, 2021
TODAY: In 1889, Walter Lippmann, founding editor of The New Republic, is born.
“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
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