Lit Hub Daily: Amitava Kumar Wonders If Fiction Can Fight Fake News
Lit Hub Daily October 5, 2021
TODAY: In 1900, Bing Xin, who wrote for young readers and was one of the most prolific Chinese writers of the 20th century, is born.
Clocking in, chanting, and selling out subjects: Sara Davidson on the ten writing lessons she learned from hanging out with Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Craft
Can fiction fight fake news? Amitava Kumar considers how it might. | Lit Hub
“My stories are my way of saying, I saw what you did. It registered in my body. It came out as a swarm of words.” Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the uses of “vengeful fiction.” | Lit Hub Craft
Toews! Sedaris! Franzen! New Books Tuesday is stacked. | The Hub
Emma Dries muses on how the latest trend in climate fiction—fragmentation—is “yet another attempt to wrest some control over a hyperobject” of our own creation. | Lit Hub Criticism
Myriam J.A. Chancy talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing Haiti. | Lit Hub
“We need ‘firsts’ to do more than break the barriers to get into the system; we need them to break the system itself.” Derecka Purnell on racial injustice and the false promise of police reforms. | Lit Hub Politics
Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen on cultural estrangement, grief, and recording her family’s Farose stories. | Lit Hub
A queer fantasy romance, a monstrous baby, a destination wedding to the eternal home of a dead bride, and more await you in October’s most-anticipated SFF titles. | Book Marks
John Copenhaver asks, how can we build empathy for unlikable characters without filing down their rough edges? | CrimeReads How has the pandemic changed what we normally think of as “science writing”? Ed Yong offers some reflections. | The Atlantic
Kyle Chayka reviews Mark McGurl’s new book on the ways Amazon and algorithmic approaches to literature have changed fiction. | The New Republic
Read a breakdown of the effect of supply-chain snarls on the publishing industry (and get your holiday book pre-orders in now). | The New York Times
How Indigenous folklore helped geoscientists understand the story of three giant, out-of-place boulders off the coast of the Makin Islands. | Hakai Magazine
Paul Auster discusses his new book and why the greatest writers are monomaniacs. | The Guardian
Michelle Zauner on claiming her Korean identity. | NPR Code Switch
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza talk about co-writing a dual-narrator novel. | EW
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