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Lit Hub Daily: December 13, 2024
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- The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of a band that transformed rock and roll forever. | Lit Hub Musicโ
- Something will enrage you and something will haunt you. And something will strike you as beautiful and true.โ Derek Mong on finding literary inspiration in visual art. | Lit Hub Art
- โSome of us became teachers of literature because we believe it helps keep us human, even in a world of genocide.โ A statement to the Modern Language Association about the BDS movement. | Lit Hub Politics
- The enduring political relevance of Walter Benjaminโs โTheses on the Philosophy of History.โ | Lit Hub Politics
- โThe bullet goes right by you / a dove shakes the stars from its wings / casting peace upon your darkened way.โ Read โThe bullet,โ a poem by Sahar Rabah, translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alclay. | Lit Hub Poetry
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Read an excerpt from Lisa Sandlinโs novel Sweet Vidalia. | Lit Hub Fiction
- โContemporary Turkish literature would look different if authors wrote soulful books like Atayโs that truly told us how it feels to live in Turkey.โ Kaya Genรง on Oฤuz Atay. | The Point
- Thereโs no shortcut to publishing a book. | Defector
- Negar Azimi considers the unjustly forgotten work of Caroline Blackwood, muse to Lucien Freud and Robert Lowell, and โthe author of wit-drenched books about the wages of class, womenโs inhumanity to women, bitchiness, greed, abjection, family, monsters.โ | The New Yorker
- Molly Templeton makes the case for seeking out small press science fiction and fantasy. | Reactor
- Even in blue states, book bans are having chilling effect on the sales of childrenโs books. | Los Angeles Times
