Lit Hub Daily: On the Pleasure of Writing Unforgivable Characters

Click here to read this email in your browser.

Lit Hub Daily

“Now, it is no longer just a gift that Chadwick gave us, but an inheritance.” William Evans considers how the Black Panther salute became a gesture that links the Black community. | Lit Hub Film

“God is no writer and God is no lawyer.” Christopher Sorrentino on bargaining his writing career for his father’s life. | Lit Hub Memoir

“The idea of island, as a world unto and within itself, implies that there still might exist innocent and isolated systems. This is no longer possible.” Jill Stoner on the sad fate of Iles aux Aigrettes. | Lit Hub Climate Change

Elegy for the unforgiven: Askold Melnyczuk examines his “impulse to probe the hearts and minds” of unsympathetic characters. | Lit Hub Craft

Elsa Panciroli guides us on an evolutionary journey, starting with the long-necked mouth-breathers we have to thank for our existence. | Lit Hub Science

Lauren Arrington on the “famously unrepentant” Ezra Pound and his ties with fascist Italy. | Lit Hub History

On Keen On, Mehran Sahami on the sacrifices we’re making because of Big Tech, and Joshua Prager on the life of “Jane Roe.” | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Jane Eyre, Macho Sluts, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more rapid-fire book recs from Sophie Ward. | Book Marks

What would it look like to rethink safety from a feminist, abolitionist perspective? | Lit Hub Politics

“Forgive the dramatics, but I had never been so completely the target audience for something before.” Patricia Lockwood considers the album It’ll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil. | Harper’s 

Listen to Brandon Taylor in conversation with Katie Kitamura. | The Sewanee Review

Ruth Ozeki discusses her Japanese identity, Shintoism, and writing after loss. | Harper’s Bazaar

“This austerity is a matter of profound artistry.” Dustin Illingworth on the fictions of Fleur Jaeggy. | New Left Review

Wole Soyinka talks about his first novel in almost 50 years, which has been in the making for “close to two decades.” | Los Angeles Times

Tika Viteri breaks down how the pandemic has changed libraries’ approaches to late fees. | Book Riot 

“If I were to expose myself, I would become a character, a public fiction that would also condition the fiction of the writing.” Elena Ferrante and Marina Abramović, in (email) conversation. | FT

We’re giving away a curated bundle of Maureen Johnson’s favorite mysteries that inspired her new book, courtesy of Ten Speed Press. Enter now!

Sandra Cisneros on the need for dialogue with the people you love,

on The Literary Life. 

*

Rachel Long talks about the “unlanguage” of writing

about the body, on Otherppl. 

*

Grant Faulkner talks sin as experimentation, on First Draft. 

*

Bathsheba Demuth charts the changing landscapes of the Arctic Circle, on Emergence Magazine.

Copyright © 2021 Literary Hub. All rights reserved.

Unsubscribe | Manage Preferences