Lit Hub Daily: Jenny Holzer on Turning Public Spaces into Art
Lit Hub Daily October 25, 2021
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“I like to make the floor drop out from under me and everyone else.” Jenny Holzer talks about a life of turning public spaces into art. | Lit Hub Art
How radical feminist and patron of the arts Charlotte Cushman built an expat community called the “Jolly Bachelors.” | Lit Hub History
Tice Cin considers queer love in crime fiction, which “can exist alongside adventure in subtle ways.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“Today, like other days, I refused to answer why I was stateless or why I had this refugee travel document.” Mona Kareem on growing up stateless in post-Gulf War Kuwait. | Lit Hub Memoir
Danielle Taschereau has some thoughts on why pen on paper is so damn satisfying. | Lit Hub
“The overarching gambit of these films is to suggest that they themselves are somehow books—or rather the mind’s-eye images that one would experience, if one could read those books.” Olivia Rutigliano “reads” Wes Anderson’s oeuvre. | Lit Hub Film
Shuggie Bain, Invisible Man, Black Beauty, and more book recs from Elaine Feeney. | Book Marks “If we truly want more diversity in the stories we tell, then perhaps we need to make room for different ways of telling them.” M. Leona Godin on Helen Keller and the problem of disability narratives as “inspiration porn.” | New York Times
Listen to this interview with Jackie Kay, who discusses the legacy of Bessie Smith. | Bookworm
Kristen Radtke talks about memorable graphic novels and how the pandemic has impacted her reading habits. | The Boston Globe
“Before they were anything else, poets were essentially people who delivered news.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the writer as archivist. | The Creative Independent
Wil Haygood considers the history of Black cinema and James Baldwin’s love of the movies. | Shondaland
“Do you want to know the real Anthony Bourdain? Think before you answer.” Sarah Rense explores what two new books reveal about his life. | Esquire
Remembering Jerry Pinkney, who illustrated “radiant picture books celebrating African American people and culture.” | Washington Post
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Lauren Groff talks about maintaining the “electric jolt” of an idea while writing, on First Draft. * Samantha Silva discusses writing a novel about Mary Wollstonecraft, on The History of Literature. * Listen to a narrated essay by Richard Powers on how stories can help us cultivate kinship with other creatures, on Emergence Magazine. * Kate Durbin talks about researching “mush mountains” and Barbies for her latest poetry collection, on Otherppl.
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