Lit Hub Daily: April 30, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1877, Alice B. Toklas is born.
-
Dorothy Chan, Erik Larson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and more! These 20 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - We do it for the aesthetic. Here are the best book covers of April. | Lit Hub Design
- “There’s always, I think, a fundamental mystery to other people.” Nicole Chung talks to Rachel Khong about the power and potential of not knowing. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Karen Valby on ballet’s long history of anti-Blackness, motherhood, and the weight of a first name: “My job—as both mother and writer—is not to negate, pollute, or dilute a Black woman’s experience.” | Lit Hub Art
- Shana Novak talks to Gloria Steinem about her library and the value of learning from difference. | Lit Hub Libraries
- “The case of Manako Kajii—or ‘Kajimana’ as she was known in the mass media—had intrigued Rika ever since her arrest.” Read from Asako Yuzuki’s novel, Butter. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “That silence is so incredibly important to think about. Silence shapes what is said.” An interview with Claire Jiménez. | Nashville Review
- On gender, otherness, and fear. Parul Sehgal profiles Judith Butler. | The New Yorker
- Chinua Achebe, Joy Harjo, Ernest Gains, Ntozake Shange, and more. How the short-lived Yardbird Reader made space for a wider lens in literature. | JSTOR Daily
- Joyelle McSweeney examines the “warlikeness” in Alice Notley’s work. | The Paris Review
- If you’re looking for speculative fiction, you’re in luck. These mid-century sci-fi and fantasy classics by women might be what you need. | Reactor
- Mystery novelist CJ Sansom has died at 71. | The Guardian
- Erin Vanderhoof talks to Claire Messud about the family secrets that inspired Messud’s new novel. | Vanity Fair
