Lit Hub Daily: Can You Guess These Famous Authors Based on Their Very First Bios?

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“______ began work on ______  in 1959, but the necessities of life delayed its completion.” Can you guess these famous writers based on their very first author bios? | Lit Hub

TEACHING THROUGH A PANDEMIC: Christy Tidwell on staying safe while teaching • Frances Starn on making a last-resort attempt at joy—by adopting a class pet. | Lit Hub Teaching

“What haunts American land haunts its literature. Every pastoral, like every paradise, implies exclusion.” Brad Kessler on settler narratives and the unmaking of an American pastoral. | Lit Hub History

Elaine Feeney considers how Ireland’s conservative attitudes about sex and the body inspired her new novel, As You Were. | Lit Hub

“After the wave of attention from the first night, America seemed to shut down. Not for a natural disaster, but for a cultural awakening.” Wil Haygood on when 130 million Americans tuned in to watch Roots. | Lit Hub TV

On the lineage of protest music, from “Strange Fruit” to Black Lives Matter anthems. | Lit Hub Music

“It is a book that can handle my exposed ass.” Dodie Bellamy on the intimacy and bodily experience of reading Paula Modersohn-Becker (in the bathroom). | Lit Hub Criticism

J.M. Thompson describes the intensity of mountain ultrarunning (in aching, blistering detail). | Lit Hub Sports

“Reality television can be as depraved as a Roman arena.” Sallie Tisdale on the manipulative, hunger-based tactics of Survivor. | Lit Hub TV

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the tits.” Rapid-fire book recs from Chelsea G. Summers. | Book Marks

A look at 10 new horror novels that are perfect for crime fans. | CrimeReads

On Keen On, Myisha Cherry on anger as a tool for defeating racism, and Michael Lenox on “decarbonizing” the global economy. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“The obsession with this fantasy is reflected at the highest levels of this industry.” On ghostwriting and the myth of the lone creative genius. | Study Hall

Bad news from Vegas: The Believer will stop publishing after its spring 2022 issue. | The Hub

Read a new poem about the pandemic by Jeannine Hall Gailey. | Image Journal

Colm Tóibín and Kiki Smith in conversation. | Interview

“Who are the gatekeepers of history?” Mary Rambaran-Olm on the prevalence of white supremacy in Medieval history, and finding community in the archives. | Public Books

In the new issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Vivian Conan discusses writing a memoir of dissociative identity disorder. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

Justin Beal explores the figure of the architect in fiction. | The MIT Press Reader

Libraries in Salt Lake County, Utah, are now providing naloxone to anyone who asks in an effort to address the opioid crisis. | The Salt Lake Tribune

The deadline is fast approaching to submit to the 2022 Zócalo Book Prize for nonfiction. | Zócalo Public Square

Topic brings you the best in crime and thriller series. Binge cult hits The Killing and new noir like Dead Mountain –The Dyatlov Pass Incident and Stephen King’s fave Beau Sejour. Get 50% off for 3 months – use LITHUB50 until 11/15/21.

Bad Seed Warren Ellis talks about the spirituality of music
and Nina Simone’s chewing gum, on Thresholds. 

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Heather Clark on enlarging our perception of Sylvia Plath, on WMFA.

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Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström reads from In Every Mirror She’s Black, on The Literary Salon. 

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Reading Women considers the emotional complexities

of women’s crime fiction.

The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, which celebrates the best in nonfiction writing, is out. This year’s shortlist explores history, race and the environment and reveals the hidden history a society in profound transition; a notorious historical figure and a global philanthropic dynasty. Explore the shortlist.

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