Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1882, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Edgar Allan Poe’s cousin and wife, is born. She died at a young age from tuberculosis, and many believe she’s the inspiration behind Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee.”
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Despite the chaos of November’s upcoming election, this fall will also bring an incredible crop of books (also, Maris Kreizman admits she was wrong). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “But when I build, I regain some semblance of control during the pre-pub day sprint—at least for a little while.” How playing with Legos helped Colleen McKeegan make sense of bad reviews. | Lit Hub Craft
- Monica Cardenas on Ann Patchett’s novels of maternal ambivalence: “This is the trait all Patchett’s heroines share: their actions are inexplicable until they suddenly shape into the most predictable behavior we can imagine.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Holly Baxter on what clickbait can tell us about journalism in the 21st century. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Afrofuturism at its core is a metaphysical and symbolic struggle to dream of beauty regardless of the current reality.” On the possibility of Afrofuturism as a solution to climate catastrophe. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “Despite all evidence to the contrary, Natwest was alive.” Read from Nathan Newman’s debut novel, How to Leave the House. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Tajja Isen on the hidden racism of book cover designs. | The Walrus
- Joy Williams recalls her infamous stories for Esquire. | Esquire
- Jack Skelley and Whitney Mallett talk high and low culture, Jungian symbols, and going out. | Interview
- On the challenge and necessity of teaching literacy in schools. | Los Angeles Times
- “Worldbuilding for me is the most powerful when it’s the most subtle.” How Helen Phillips wrote her new novel, Hum. | Counter Craft
- Owen Lewis considers the “repetitive genius” of Ishiguro. | Defector
