Lit Hub Daily: Rebecca Solnit on the Symbolic Power of the Rose
Lit Hub Daily October 19, 2021
TODAY: In 1784, Leigh Hunt is born.
“Roses mean everything, which skates close to meaning nothing.” Rebecca Solnit considers the importance of the rose in art and culture. | Lit Hub Criticism
Read from the 2021 Cundill History Prize shortlist, celebrating some of the best new titles in contemporary history. | Lit Hub History
The right to a barstool: how second-wave feminists took on gendered drinking discrimination. | Lit Hub History
Happy New Books Tuesday, just when you thought your TBR pile couldn’t get any bigger. | The Hub
TEACHING THROUGH A PANDEMIC: Joshua Soule on how Texas abandoned its teachers · Kozbi Simmons on making students feel seen in the era of masking. | Lit Hub Teaching
Mary Wellesley on the daunting, 16-year task of piecing together The Canterbury Tales. | Lit Hub
“I want the book to consider how what is monstrous to us might also be what is holy.” Tiphanie Yanique in conversation with Jane Ciabattari. | Lit Hub
Sonya Huber recommends eight great novels that unfold over the course of 24 hours. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
How Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx discovered hard rock in the middle of small-town Idaho. | Lit Hub Music
“As a closeted queer kid, I was willing to find support anywhere, even if I had to suspend some disbelief.” Nathan Smith on seeking solace in Go Ask Alice. | Lit Hub Criticism
Cynthia A. Branigan on rescuing the last diving horse in America. Yes, horse-diving was a thing. | Lit Hub History
Nick Kolakowski examines the strange intersection of noir fiction and plastic surgery. | CrimeReads
Matilda, Trainspotting, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and more rapid-fire book recs from TaraShea Nesbit. | Book Marks
On Keen On, Vanessa Veselka muses on what the next American Revolution might look like. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel What makes mystery fiction so engaging? | JSTOR Daily
Poets of color have ushered in a new golden age for poetry, writes Leah Asmelash. | CNN
Take a look into where Matt Ortile writes. | Catapult
“For me, short stories just arrive—or they don’t.” Penelope Lively discusses her new book, the writers she admires, and her childhood. | The Guardian
On Nella Larsen, Mariah Carey, and the history of passing narratives. | Vulture
“Something about books, or the way we talk about books, stuns people into an obnoxious reverence about all the places that sell or borrow them.” On You and the trappings of fictional booksellers. | Gawker
Inside the surprising succession news at the Scholastic publishing company. | The New York Times
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