Lit Hub Daily: April 4, 2024

TODAY: In 1928, Maya Angelou is born.

Marissa Higgins recommends queer books for people with mommy issues. And yes, The Price of Salt is on the list. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Diana Arterian takes a close look at what Julia Alvarez has on her nightstand. | Lit Hub Criticism
“west—all the way. / our move still feels like yesterday, / although it has been ages.” Read David Semanki’s poem “California,” from the collection Ghost Camera. | Lit Hub Poetry
Are you broken if you like reading bad reviews of your writing nemesis? Kristen Arnett answers that burning question and more. | Lit Hub Craft
Kwaneta Harris explores systemic censorship and the regulation of knowledge in Texas prisons. | Lit Hub Politics
“Psychoanalysis was essential for understanding the cage and its contours, but an inadequate tool for getting out of it.” Hannah Zeavin interviews Anna Schechtman. | Lit Hub In Conversation

“Palestinian lives are simply not valued, and, by inheritance, neither are Palestinian Americans.” Sahar Mustafah asks how we celebrate Arab American Heritage Month while genocide continues in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
“The heart is everywhere in these pages.” 5 reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
“The Chaplaincy founded by the father of the lay sister whose beatification Inés tried to promote in Rome has kept the Casa in the Azcoitía family for a century and a half.” Read from Jose Donoso’s novel, The Obscene Bird of Night. | Lit Hub Fiction
Who’s afraid of librarians? Apparently, the Louisiana lawmakers trying to criminalize ALA membership. | Book Riot
“The act of editing in such volumes was intended to be an account of the mind learning, the soul contemplating.” On the historical practice of compiling a commonplace book. | JSTOR Daily
Nick Barber writes about “a poetics of living rebellion.” | Public Books
Sheila Heti interviews Lauren Oyler: “The first things I remember writing were journals and daily writing assignments in school, and then there were the private blogs I kept as a teenager.” | The Paris Review
“Palestinian poetry is not only poetry for times of crisis. It is not breaking news or soundbites for the media. It is poetry for all time.” In conversation with poet Samer Abu Hawwash. | Asymptote
Meg Bernhard profiles Frank Warren, the man behind the PostSecret project, and considers “postcards as a medium of narrative.” | Hazlitt

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