Lit Hub Daily: November 1, 2024
TODAY: In 1604, Shakespeare’s Othello is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace in London.
“As Simone Weil put it: ‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’” Leonard Cassuto on how to take care of your reader. | Lit Hub Craft
Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books that are perfect for reading together. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Hidden faces and earth tones unite the best book covers of October. | Lit Hub Design
November bring new sci-fi and fantasy books from Carrie Vaughn, Tasha Suri, Haruki Murakami, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“There are, of course, literary pleasures to be had in a sociopathic protagonist.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
From cowboys to zombies, Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections by Albert Abonado, Kimiko Hahn, Duy Đoàn, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
These are the best audiobooks coming in November, courtesy of our friends at AudioFile Magazine. | Lit Hub Audiobooks
“Shanghai in June is a sweltering continuum of neon and glass, its colors and textures either smudged by gloom or rendered aggressively crisp under the harsh sun.” Read from Mike Fu’s new novel, Masquerade. | Lit Hub Fiction
“The only way he could tell us about ourselves was by talking about himself, and the only way he could tell us about himself was by talking about anything but.” Dale Peck remembers Gary Indiana. | The Baffler
Alison Haben presents a brief history of the (original) muses. | JSTOR Daily
Ariel Lown Lewiton on finding hope in protest pins. | The New York Times Magazine
On science and gender at an Alaskan residency. | The Paris Review
Mira Ptacin tells the story of how a neo-Nazi was driven out of Maine. | The Atavist
Coco Fusco examines how the American immigration system exploits vulnerable people for profit. | New York Review of Books
