
Lit Hub Daily: April 26, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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“Only the Ukrainian Army and its volunteers are awake.” New poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko. | Lit Hub Ukraine
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Give a warm welcome to these 20 new books published today. | The Hub
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“Eliot could rationalize her nonparticipation with her belief that her novels were improvements for the soul. Can I?” Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the moral value of fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Better Call John Moscow: Bill Browder recounts exposing a Russian money laundering scheme and surviving Putin’s wrath. | Lit Hub
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Julie Phillips considers the mother-writers of the 1960s who refused to choose between books and babies. | Lit Hub Parenting
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We should probably be grateful for that wayward asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs. | Lit Hub Paleontology
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How Soon Wiley virtually strolled Seoul for novel research, with the help of Google street view. | Lit Hub Craft
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“I sometimes envy you the peace you must be experiencing now that you are dead.” A letter from Celia Paul to the artist Gwen John. | Lit Hub Art
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“He uses words as the sea uses waves.” Langston Hughes’s 1958 review of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son. | Book Marks
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Read a roundtable discussion with the Edgar nominees on the state of the crime novel in 2022. | CrimeReads
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“If you have language that pops, language that slashes, that’s what’s for me.” Helen Rosner talks to John Darnielle about songs, poetry, and (“more or less”) the secret to happiness. | The New Yorker
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Deesha Philyaw discusses being—and feeling—“very 50.” | Oldster
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“A good guest doesn’t pretend they live in someone else’s home, they acknowledge their status and appreciate their temporary dwelling.” Noah Baldino on the pleasures of reading like a guest. | Harriet
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Working with volunteers, two British independent publishers are delivering books to Ukrainian children on the border with Romania. | BBC
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Jackson Davidow looks at Nicole Rudick’s new book on Niki de Saint Phalle, “a testament to the willful production of artistic subjectivity.” | LARB
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A tiny book produced by a young Charlotte Brontë will return to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, where it was first created. | The New York Times
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Alan Jacobs considers free speech, censorship, and “the human wreckage created by social media.” | Hedgehog Review
Also on Lit Hub: Michelle Huneven’s notes from over a decade of restaurant criticism • The “uncanny despair” of the cruise ship narrative • Read from Uzma Aslam Khan’s latest novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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