Lit Hub Daily: What Hyperspace and Virginia Woolf Have in Common

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“Wheresoever I go I can never leave the earth alone.” Frances Hodgson Burnett really, really loved gardens. | Lit Hub Biography

The eyes have it in the 13 best book covers of September. | Lit Hub

“When most of the people at these meetings could no longer read, how would they know if I’d told their story properly at all?” Jon McGregor on learning about aphasia at the local support group. | Lit Hub

The biggest season of books continues to provide—here are 13 of this week’s new titles. | The Hub

“Her attitude was: ‘I write from the Black experience, but I aim for the human heart.’” Talking to Maya Angelou’s son about the new award named in her honor. | Lit Hub

Lucy Ellman talks matriarchy, Jane Austen, and the “brave weird concoction” of ­Moby-Dick. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

Timothy Morton muses on hyperspace, the field beyond the speed of light, and how it relates to stream-of-consciousness narratives. | Lit Hub Science

Alice Bell retraces the failed utopian promise of fossil-fueled abundance. | Lit Hub Climate Change

New titles by Joy Harjo, Winfred Rembert, and Dawn Turner feature among September’s best reviewed memoirs and biographies. | Book Marks

Darcy Coates takes a look at eight novels that twist our idea of the home into something terrifying. | CrimeReads

On Keen On, Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses radical honesty as a key to growth. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Anika T. Prather discusses the role of the classics in struggles for racial equality, and makes the case for their continued relevance for Black students. | The Point

Bill McKibben is launching Third Act, a new climate action organization for people 60 and over. | Oldster

“For many of her readers, Hejinian has managed to alter what we think of as a life.” Jessica Fisher on Lyn Hejinian’s “allegorical activism.” | Public Books

Anita Hill discusses her new book and the systemic issues that helped secure Justice Clarence Thomas’ appointment. | NPR

Wang Ping considers the vital impact of Doris Lessing and the meaning of freedom. | The Offing

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on her new collection and being a debut author at 50. | The New York Times

“I think we’re seeing a great falling apart, a great fracturing and fragmentation.” Chuck Palahniuk talks to Kathryn Borel about writing in the internet age and more. | The Believer

Kevin Sanchez reflects on what Banned Books Week means for Texas school districts embroiled in controversy over classroom reading materials. | San Antonio Current

Andrew Martin on the line between autofiction and autobiographical fiction, on Thresholds. 

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Louise Nealon talks about jealousy, naivety, and catching up
with her characters, on Otherppl. 

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Lauren Groff discusses the complexities of faith in her new book,
on Reading Women. 

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Elodie Harper reads from her latest novel, The Wolf’s Den,
on The Literary Salon.

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