Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | February 21, 2019

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

Unforgetting Lois Weber, Master of the Silent Film Era

By Sasha Archibald | February 21, 2019

Simpler Times: Janet Malcolm at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity

Simpler Times: Janet Malcolm at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity

On the Conflation of Liberal Comedy and Political Organization

By Janet Malcolm | February 21, 2019

The Crucial Role of the Sidekick in <em>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</em>

The Crucial Role of the Sidekick in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Ahead of the Oscars Ben Rybeck Previews the Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees

By Ben Rybeck | February 21, 2019

After Carrie Kinsey's Letter to Theodore Roosevelt

After Carrie Kinsey's Letter to Theodore Roosevelt

A Poem from Shane McCrae's Collection The Gilded Auction Block

By Shane McCrae | February 21, 2019

Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern on Screenwriting's Tips for Fiction

Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern on Screenwriting's Tips for Fiction

With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 21, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

31 Books in 30 Days: Kate Tuttle on Nora Krug

By Literary Hub | February 21, 2019

Charlie Jane Anders on World-Building and the Perils of Allegory

By So Many Damn Books | February 21, 2019

Announcing the Third Annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

By Emily Temple | February 21, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: February 20, 2019

Lit Hub Daily: February 20, 2019

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | February 20, 2019

Valeria Luiselli on Freedom, First Love, and Mayan Ruins

Valeria Luiselli on Freedom, First Love, and Mayan Ruins

"I've Always Wanted to Ask Interviewers How They Come Up with Their Questions"

By Valeria Luiselli | February 20, 2019

Tigers Don't Eat Humans, So Why Did This One Kill Over 400 People?

Tigers Don't Eat Humans, So Why Did This One Kill Over 400 People?

Deforestation, Poaching, and White People
Created the Man-Eater of Champawat

By Dane Huckelbridge | February 20, 2019

Eula Biss:

Eula Biss: "A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce."

Reflections on a Book and a Decade of Whiteness

By Eula Biss | February 20, 2019

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor Was Not the Worst Thing to Happen to the U.S. on December 7, 1941

Daniel Immerwahr on the Erasure of American "Territories" from US History

By Daniel Immerwahr | February 20, 2019

The Best Fiction of Anxiety

The Best Fiction of Anxiety

Evelyn Hampton Recommends Stories Octavia Butler, Lydia Davis, and More

By Evelyn Hampton | February 20, 2019

<em>BlacKkKlansman</em>: Antiracist Callout Disguised as a Feel-Good Cop Movie

BlacKkKlansman: Antiracist Callout Disguised as a Feel-Good Cop Movie

Ahead of the Oscars Ben Rybeck Previews the Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees

By Ben Rybeck | February 20, 2019

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