Lit Hub Daily: April 18, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1958, a United States federal court rules that Ezra Pound is to be released from an asylum.
- “It always says the same thing: the vast majority of writers don’t earn enough from writing to make a decent living.” David Hill reflects on writing as labor. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Ethel Rohan on writing about grief: “For most of my life, I’ve suffered in shame and silence while the men who hurt me got away scot-free.” | Lit Hub Criticism
Article continues after advertisement - “My first own half-grown tenderness / out in the world—you teaching us / Beowulf, World War II, the army, Gertrude Stein.” Read Jean Valentine’s poem, “To My Teacher.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- Are you the asshole if you don’t want to read someone else’s writing? Kristen Arnett has the answer. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Levine is a gifted performance artist of literary fiction—part French existentialist and part comic bomb-thrower.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “The journey to the past is always the journey of a madman.” Suzanne Scanlon on remembering and returning to a disappearing past. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Thomas Lynch reflects on suicide as a negation of the self and contours of grief in the aftermath of a family tragedy. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The building was old, parts of it made of large stones shaped into rough squares. It had been a hotel at one time, then a boardinghouse for derelict men.” Read from Karen Jennings’s new novel, Crooked Seeds. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Diana Goetsch on what happened when she embarked on a red-state library tour as a trans author. | The Los Angeles Times
- “What he fears most are his own experiences, their seeming difference or marginal placement in the culture…” An examination of Garrett Hongo’s poetry. | JSTOR Daily
- Kate Dwyer interviews Anne Carson: “A person is a prism, you know, and concepts just flash from this to that from day to day.” | The Paris Review
- Jessica Zhan Mei Zhou considers the poetics of Taylor Swift’s style. | Vanity Fair
- Floridians now need to live in a school district in order to challenge the books on school library shelves. Probably, that should have already been the case. | The New Republic
- An interview with the editors of the New York War Crimes, the protest publication standing in opposition to the New York Times and its coverage of Gaza. | The Baffler
