Lit Hub Daily: Rebecca Solnit on the Symbolic Power of the Rose

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“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

Listen to spooky microfictions from Nick Olson, Noa Covo,

and Tyler Barton, on Micro. 

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How photography shaped Wright Morris’s fiction, on Lit Century.

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Forrest Gander talks about grief, translation, and sharing joy
in times of suffering, on The Quarantine Tapes.

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