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“To traffic in the baffling is to maintain a certain endurance for that which doesn’t yield much, maybe any, result.” Kyle Beachy reflects on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and the theology of skateboarding. | Lit Hub
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Siri Hustvedt considers the evolution of hate-speech narratives, from 17th-century witch trials to the scourge of QAnon. | Lit Hub Politics
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Charlie English reflects on Hitler’s murderous endeavor to impose his artistic vision on Germany. | Lit Hub History
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Eulogy for a cousin: SNL star Cecily Strong pays tribute to a late family member. | Lit Hub
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If literary writers want to “create fiction that confronts a new awareness of hard problems,” they have a lot to learn from genre writers. | Lit Hub Craft
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In praise of “Sick Lit”: Eleanor Henderson recommends memoirs by women that explore chronic illness, addiction, and trauma. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Emily Oster in praise of parenting with data. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
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The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers from six indies rave about their favorite reads. | Book Marks
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Veronica Bond celebrates the atmospheric thrills of literature’s gothic castles. | CrimeReads
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What if the best beach read is… nothing? Alex McElroy makes the case for leaving your books at home this one time. | The Atlantic
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“The history of book reviewing is a history of frustration and disappointment. Why should our era be different?” On the state of the book review. | n+1
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Percival Everett discusses honest art, inequity in publishing, well-meaning racism, and the quest for the novel nobody likes. | Booth
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Cecily Strong recommends her most memorable reads. | Elle
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Tiana Nobile, Ansley Moon, and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello talk about being Asian American adoptee poets, identity, and self-care in the time of the pandemic. | Catapult
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“It was quite threatening.” Authors speak out on Goodreads-focused extortion schemes. | TIME
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Has the pandemic changed our approach to physical books? | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Kit Mackintosh dives into the subculture of Brooklyn drill music • Angel Khoury considers what it means to evoke a place in literature • Read from A.K. Blakemore’s debut novel, The Manningtree Witches
