Lit Hub Daily: June 21, 2017

Lit Hub Daily: June 21, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

By Lit Hub Daily | June 21, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'

By Brian Dillon | June 21, 2017

22 of Your Favorite Writers on What to Read This Summer

22 of Your Favorite Writers on What to Read This Summer

Celeste Ng, Rumaan Alam, Lauren Groff, Catherine Lacey and More

By Emily Temple | June 21, 2017

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Katie MacBride on Guns, De-Escalation, and the Need for Funding

By Katie MacBride | June 21, 2017

For the First Time On Its Own, Hans Christian Andersen's Adult Novel

For the First Time On Its Own, Hans Christian Andersen's Adult Novel

You Definitely Do Not Want to Mess with The Ice Virgin

By Hans Christian Andersen | June 21, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
  • Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
  • The Oyster Diaries
  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

By John J. Healey | June 21, 2017

Jill Eisenstadt and Darcey Steinke on Writing, Motherhood, and Brooklyn

By Literary Hub | June 21, 2017

Lit Hub Daily: June 20, 2017

By Lit Hub Daily | June 20, 2017

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

By Veronica Esposito | June 20, 2017

Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

From John Cheever to Amy Hempel, Saying Much in Few Words

By Olivia Clare Friedman | June 20, 2017

David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, 'The Most Unlikely Leader Ever'

David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, 'The Most Unlikely Leader Ever'

In Conversation with the London-Based Writer and Anthropologist

By Christopher Lydon | June 20, 2017

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

Talking to the Author of the Man Booker Prize-Winning The Sellout

By Julie Phillips | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

Minae Mizumura on Serializing Novels, Aging, and the Eternal Internet

Minae Mizumura on Serializing Novels, Aging, and the Eternal Internet

The Author of Inheritance From Mother Talks to Benjamin Moser

By Benjamin Moser | June 20, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Widows, War, and Weight

5 Books Making News This Week: Widows, War, and Weight

Sarah Perry, Mark Bowden, Roxane Gay, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | June 20, 2017

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