Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1943, Louise Glück is born.
- “What if life really was a story? What if you could alter the plot? Assign meaning to the most brutal contempt?” Read from Dorothy Allison’s acceptance speech for Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. | Lit Hub
- “Forgive me if I wanted to return safely. Safety was never given to me.” Aimee Nezhukumatathil considers the South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher. | Lit Hub Nature
- Christina Vo on a father and daughter’s shared love for Vietnam. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Jenny Minton Quigley introduces the winners of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Medieval English people had no problem believing in climate change and ecosystemic collapse.” What medieval poets can teach us about climate change. | Lit Hub History
- “I got the shuttle in Dallas / The man sitting beside me window seat / Slept. He was wearing new spiffy boots.” Read Alice Notley’s poem, “Gravel Ghost or Gravel Gertie.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “At the wake, she wore a dark-blue suit, knowing she’d be judged for black.” Read from Victor Lodato’s new novel, Honey. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Is it okay to throw away a book? Michelle Cyca says yes. | The Walrus
- On the first edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language. | JSTOR Daily
- The precarious ethics of owning or displaying books bound with human skin. | The New York Times
- “And that’s why myths retain their power—they can serve a number of different purposes and play both sides of a contradiction.” An interview with author and historian Richard Slotkin. | Public Books
- Theories about the Bard’s authorship aren’t new, but some might have originated during Shakespeare’s lifetime. | The Guardian
- Yan Lianke on the unique experience of writing in China: “…authors have the possibility of enjoying independent thought and imagination, while also encountering enormous obstacles of identification and seduction.” | The Paris Review
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