Lit Hub Daily: April 25, 2022

TODAY: In 1719, Robinson Crusoe, whose protagonist Joyce dubbed “the true prototype of the British colonists,” is published. 

• Molly Shannon talks defying comedy’s gatekeepers, a semi-romantic mugging, and her most iconic Saturday Night Live characters. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• The Green New Deal broke new ground. Where does it stand now? | Lit Hub

• Anais Granofsky reflects on the burden of childhood code-switching. | Lit Hub

• “This gorge was hell. But the people were kind in hell, even if the place was brutal.” Joanna Kavenna on walking the Grande Randonnée. | Lit Hub Travel

• Yurina Yoshikawa considers how Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth captures the experiences of third culture kids. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Caroline Kurtz recommends ten books for understanding the conflicts in South Sudan and Ethiopia. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “Eventually, my story was killed. Simultaneously, my life imploded.” Katie Bennett measures the emotional toll of writing about Joan Vollmer Burroughs, who was murdered by her husband, William Burroughs. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Saskia Solomon offers a look at the popular Just William books at 100. | The New York Times

• Jon McGregor embarks on a bike tour of all the bookshops in the UK he can reach in a week. | The Guardian

• What does the “profound and amazing” joke at the end of Annie Hall mean? Sheila Heti, Nathan Goldman, and more investigate. | The Paris Review

• Gal Beckerman on why radical ideas demand incubation: a “process by which people can come together, and refine an idea, imagine different aspects of it without fear of being shamed.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Torrey Peters, Meiko Kawakami, and more women writers share their workspaces. | Financial Times

• “My identity as a writer has come to its fullest form now that I am also an active translator.” Jhumpa Lahiri on her favorite objects. | WSJ Magazine

• Robin D. G. Kelley reads T. Thomas Fortune’s 1884 book Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South, and considers Fortune’s place in the pantheon of radical Black intellectuals. | Boston Review

Also on Lit Hub: A poem by Arda Collins • A poem by D. Nurkse • Read from an excerpt from Flung Out of Space

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