Lit Hub Daily: Dave Eggers on the Terrifying Ubiquity of Corporate Tech
Lit Hub Daily October 6, 2021
TODAY: In 1979, Elizabeth Bishop dies.
“Poetry might seem like an inconsequential side-casualty in a larger, noisier war, but in fact it is central to the story of ownership of ideas and expressions.” Sam Riviere in defense of poetic plagiarism. | Lit Hub Poetry
Miriam Toews on Grapes of Wrath and writing honestly. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
Bonnie Friedman reflects on the “bookstore of envy” from her youth, writerly self-doubt, and growing into gratitude. | Lit Hub
“If you made a good taco, everyone wanted to know if it was scalable.” Dave Eggers talks about escaping corporate tech and his upcoming novel. | Lit Hub
As aquifers decline, Kansas is becoming Ground Zero for the imminent water crisis. What does that mean for the future? | Lit Hub Climate Change
On the unhinged pleasures of speculative nonfiction: Patrick Allington reads the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena report alongside Chariot of the Gods? | Lit Hub
“A cycle was finished, a whole Odyssey.” The late Diane di Prima remembers her friend Freddie Herko. | Lit Hub Memoir
“You might have heard them called—dismissed as—runaways or hustlers. But you don’t know their names...” David Nelson on the need to respect the lives of John Wayne Gacy’s victims. | CrimeReads
Margaret Verble on Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, and the largest primary source of information on the Cherokee Indians of the late 1700s. | Book Marks
On Keen On, Zack Greenburg talks NFTs and the music industry, and David Kushner discusses the age of disruptors. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel Bad art friends: Robert Kolker tells a long and winding tale of inspiration, appropriation, a donated kidney, and endless litigation between two writers. | New York Times Magazine
Jonathan Franzen on his most memorable reads. | Elle
Paul Griner discusses his latest book, his writing habits, and genre writing. | Full Stop
Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson addresses the new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. | The New Republic
“If someone wanted to build a young woman specifically for the purpose of being hated by the internet, she was what they would’ve wrought.” Scaachi Koul on the legacy of Marie Calloway. | Buzzfeed News
Minjie Chen on what makes a good translation and why Julia Lovell’s translation of Monkey King is “the best English edition ... I have ever read.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Tirzah Price lays out the case for joining your local library board. | Book Riot
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