Lit Hub Daily: October 29, 2024
TODAY: In 1929: the first sound film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, is released in the United States.
Mónica de la Torre discusses the artists, writers and performers who influence her creative development: “I learned that no matter how I got language on the page, I couldn’t not sound like myself.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“The defining feature of the act of translation is the kind of reading the translator is doing.” Damion Searls on what emerging and established translators can learn from some good old fashioned close reading. | Lit Hub On Translation
Nick Hornby wonders if aging has changed his reading preferences (and shares some titles he’s read and bought). | Lit Hub Criticism
Glory Edim, Cho Nam-Joo, a literary guide to Gilmore Girls, and more! These 18 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Emily Herring on how Henri Bergson’s radical view of reality came to be: “It seemed as though the universe was finally granting the composer some stability, something that had so far been lacking in his life.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“Humanity is much more deeply enmeshed and active in climate systems than Stewart knew…” On reading George Stewart’s Fire during fire season. | Lit Hub Criticism
“I was often ill when I was a little girl, or at least more often than my brothers and sisters.” Read from Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Debroah, translated by Mark Polizzotti. | Lit Hub Fiction
How a turbulent media landscape helped bring about the Civil War. | Atlas Obscura
“The work lifted me up. A life buoy as I was drowning in loss.” Sigrid Rausing on translating and editing Johanna Ekström’s final notebooks. | Granta
Novelist and poet Paul Bailey has died at 87. | The Guardian
“Granted, if Madame Dupin’s work remained unexplored for so long, it was mainly due to its difficulty of access.” What Jean-Jacques Rousseau learned about equality from Madame Louise Dupin. | Aeon
How AI is taking over the blogging platform that calls itself “a home for human writing.” | Wired
“Ultimately, I loved Megalopolis. Perhaps I am being seduced by the allure of late-style auteurism.” Sam Bodrojan on Francis Ford Coppola’s most chaotic movie. | Los Angeles Review of Books
