Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1867, English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy is born.
- Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub
- “Although I have not inherited a physical plot, I’ve inherited dual impulses related to how I define home.” Sadiya Ansari on family, place and inheritance in South Asia and North America. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Snowden Wright digs into the visceral, versatile stories of Brad Watson, the “countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Rosamund Young on how cows, sheep and other four-legged friends bond with their human caretakers. | Lit Hub Nature
- What happens when a brain surgeon sees the most harrowing diagnosis in medicine? Theodore H. Schwartz on the supervillain of malignant tumors. | Lit Hub Health
- “We were searching for a writing method that was less like writing and more like living.” Sofia Samatar on balancing self-compartmentalization with the joy of creation. | Lit Hub Craft
- “In the restaurant, Sophia and her mother have justified their continued presence with a large, round plate of carpaccio.” Read from Jo Hamya’s novel, The Hypocrite. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Henry Ivry on why “an increasing number of critics are interested in the literary life of material infrastructures.” | Public Books
- “Canetti’s resistance to death ultimately assumes the force of religious ardor.” On Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death. | The Baffler
- Leslie Jamison on finishing her friend Rebecca Godfrey’s uncompleted novel after her death. | Los Angeles Times
- Joshua Rothman asks, “How can a society function when the rejection of knowledge becomes a political act?” | The New Yorker
- “It is hard to live within the word ‘degenerative’, which means that, however I strive, I do not win.” Anne Carson on Parkinson’s, handwriting, and concentration. | London Review of Books
- Huh! Turns out, conservative indie publishing was not quite the moneymaker the Daily Wire hoped it would be. | Semafor
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