Lit Hub Daily: What Gives Jane Goodall Hope in an Era of Climate Crisis?

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“The notion of a we—a collective that reaches far beyond our comprehension of who and what we belong to—is fundamental to understanding Ross Gay’s poetic mission.” Sara B. Franklin on a true poet of our times. | Lit Hub Poetry

Take heart: Jane Goodall still has hope for the planet. | Lit Hub Climate Change

“Such stories are a way of erasing the city’s past, because a city without a past is also a place without a future.” Taran Khan on an ever-changing Kabul. | Lit Hub

Was Tess of the D’Ubervilles the first #MeToo novel? Janet Beard on the perpetual timeliness of the Thomas Hardy Classic. | Lit Hub Criticism

Teachers are tired of pretending to be ok: On the dire consequences of a continued teaching shortage • “I struggle to find an answer for the student who has noticed all the empty seats.” | Lit Hub Teaching Through a Pandemic

“Narrative pursues me, ghoul that it is.” TaraShea Nesbit on giving voice to the stories that haunt us. | Lit Hub

Andrew Potter considers how nostalgia, “the dominant mood of the 21st century,” leads to political decline. | Lit Hub Politics

Chris Hedges reflects on teaching playwriting in prison, with the help of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. | Lit Hub Theater

Tara Laskowski recommends plenty of Halloween-themed crime stories to read this October. | CrimeReads

Jennifer Egan on Elizabeth Strout, Rumaan Alam on Jonathan Franzen, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

WATCH: Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Chanel Craft Tanner on a new intersectional resource for young feminists • Armand D’Angour on what the Ancient Greeks can teach us about innovation • Ethan Lou on crypto and the bitcoin boom. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“What I needed was not more brutal truth but a good reason to go on.” Joshua Ferris gives in to illusion. | Esquire

Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman discuss the collaboration process for their novel, The Very Nice Box. | Guernica

Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about his new book series, which spotlights the legacy of influential Black thinkers and artists. | The New York Times

Seven authors consider their favorite “overlooked” Black writers. | The Guardian

Elizabeth Strout reflects on her literary career and the next chapter for her character Lucy Barton. | EW

A tribute to Gary Paulsen, whose stories “affirmed the inexhaustible ability of young people to grow and learn on their own terms.” | Gawker

Anuk Arudpragasam discusses writing the “moments in which the historical and political subtext ruptures into the form.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Phoebe Robinson on her new imprint and anti-racism

reading lists, on The Maris Review. 

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Ilana Masad talks about why Arrival looks different

after COVID-19, on Open Form. 

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Robert Draper on why Bush-era foreign policies still affect us today, on Just the Right Book. 

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How Catherine Raven befriended a wild fox, on Otherppl. 

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Derecka Purnell joins The Quarantine Tapes to talk about abolition and the pursuit of freedom.

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On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill

discuss writing rural America.

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