Lit Hub Daily: August 11, 2022

• “When people try too hard to pin it down, they often ruin everything that makes poetry magical.” Chris Martin on poetry, autism, and the joy of working with neurodiverse writers. | Lit Hub Poetry

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• On Rita Mae Brown and the early days of queer feminism. | Lit Hub History

• “The anger sustains me because it makes me indignant, because it makes me think melodramatic things like, I’ll show you what art is.” Megan Giddings on getting angry at the movies. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Why the simulation theory is a question of faith, not logic. | Lit Hub Science

• Melody Razak considers women’s testimonies that survived the Partition of India. | Lit Hub History

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• In today’s serious book news: The best erotic fan fiction from the DOJ v. PRH antitrust trial. | The Hub

• Janina Ramirez recommends 10 books of forgotten women: “For centuries scholars have busied themselves with the ‘victors’ of history, who were usually men. Now a new generation is broadening the picture to include the lives most of us lead.” | The Guardian

• “Domination can’t be safely cordoned off as an external problem; it also seeps into our everyday desires and fantasies.” Daniel José Camacho considers Slave Play and St. Augustine. | The Point

• Ashira Morris reports on how teenagers are resisting book bans. | Next City

• “Reading books about queer parenthood allows me to sit with that grief, the grief of the unchosen path.” Laura Sackton on what draws her to books about queer parenting. | Book Riot

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• A report finds that book bans in Texas are being pushed by politicians more than parents. | Houston Chronicle

• Considering the ever-changing lexicon of the obscene. | History Today

• Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs—whose works included The Snowman—has died at 88. | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: What Kendra Allen is reading now and next • New poetry from Jana Prikryl • Read “The Gap” by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (tr. Yasmine Seale)