Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1904, the Irish Homestead publishes James Joyce’s story “The Sisters,” which will become the first story in Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners.
- Navid Sinaki on Scheherazade, secrets, and finding his voice as a young, queer Iranian immigrant. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “What do we inherit from trauma? Complicated stories, frayed genetics, and many, many hidden secrets.” Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and more take the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Gill Paul on how Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins revolutionized the book world. | Lit Hub Biography
- The 24 new books out today include work by Sofia Samatar, Peter Heller, Cynthia Zarin, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Camille Peri on the creative and romantic partnership between 19th-century literary power couple Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I will never forget the house in Ashiya, where I lived from 1972 to 1973.” Read from Yoko Ogawa’s novel Mina’s Matchbox, translated by Stephen B. Snyder. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I had to choose between an enraged middle-aged cat who hated me versus an adorable kitten who loved me or at least acted that way.” Mary Gaitskill considers the bad behavior of a pet. | The Cut
- Francisco Cantú on joining and leaving the Border Patrol: “I imagined that I could be a force for good within this agency that I already didn’t agree with, but I sort of accepted as inevitable.” | MIT Press Reader
- Jason Diamond on the resurgence of “men don’t read” discourse. | GQ
- “For eighty-one years, my father was up to the same game, though his situation wasn’t so comical; at least, the living of it wasn’t.” Zadie Smith on family and comedy. | The New Yorker
- “I’ve been flirting with the anima and have written a very few poems. But there are weeds in the cracks at last.” Five letters from Seamus Heany. | The Paris Review
- A group chat about group chats, but make it literary. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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