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Lit Hub Daily: November 15, 2024
TODAY: In 1869, English poet Charlotte Mary Mew is born.ย
- Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trumpโs America.ย | Lit Hub Memoir
- โGoodness is neither wisdom nor wealth; ironically, like evil, in its purest form good is not instrumental, utilitarian, or even pragmatic.โ Ed Simon on the Seven Deadly Sins and how good and evil have manifested throughout the ages. | Lit Hub History
- Dorsรญa Smith Silva recommends essential collections of ecopoetry by Craig Santos Perez, Juliana Spahr, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This week on The Lit Hub Podcast, Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood talk about Nancy Drewย and Ryan Chapman calls in about the Booker Prize. | Lit Hub Radio
- Richard Priceโsย Lazarus Man, Lili Anolikโsย Didion & Babitz, and Katherine Rundellโsย Vanishing Treasuresย all feature among theย best reviewed books of the week. |ย Book Marks
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โwhere the heatstruck anthropologist writes / his prophecy in a wrenched tense: / โTheir godsโฆtheyโve drowned.โโ Read โAnthropology,โ a poem by Ishion Hutchinson from the collection Far District. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Adrian Tomine gives advice to those trying to build a creative career: โItโs important for aspiring artists to be honest with themselves and really think about what theyโre aiming for.โ | Lit Hub Craft
- โThe words and connotations of cardinal directions that are spoken give shape and order to societies.โ Jerry Brotton on how ancient cultures conceptualized the cardinal directions. | Lit Hub History
- โEver since my motherโs death, which had also been the death of my entire family, falling in love had become a completely different experience for me.โ Read Ine Boermansโ story โLove Interbellum,โ translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey and published in The Michigan Quarterly Review. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jonathan Lethem considers Philip K. Dick, colonialism, and Palestine. | The Paris Review
- How white nationalist John Tanton became an architect of the American anti-immigration movement by blending โecology with eugenics.โ | Salon
- From โThe Legend of Sleepy Hollowโ to Salemโs Lot: what happened to a little bird called the whip-poor-will, formerly a harbinger of literary terror? | JSTOR Daily
- โIt also throws a sharp light on Munroโs later fiction, throughout which elements of Andreaโs experience, and all that came after it, can be found.โ Anne Enright reexamines Alice Munro. | New York Review of Books
- Rhoda Feng on Ayad Akhtarโs AI play McNeal, โa work that often seems more like a simulacrum of a play than the red-blooded real thing.โ | The Nation
- Historian and law professor Annette Gordon-Reed recommends books for our fractured political moment. | The New Yorker