Lit Hub Daily: August 16, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY:In 1902, Wallace Thurman, author of the novel The Blacker the Berry (for which a Kendrick Lamar song is named), is born.
- White supremacy is as American as apple pie: George Hawley on the uncomfortable reality behind this country’s foundational mythology. | Literary Hub
- How a silent book club restored my reading life. | Literary Hub
- If he won’t fight Nazis at home, maybe he’ll bomb North Korea? David L. Ulin revisits a classic account of nuclear devastation, with one eye on the doomsday clock. | Literary Hub
- Poetry and power: Matthew Zapruder on the ways a poem can re-activate language. | Literary Hub
- Striking the note of universal human sympathy: On Primo Levi’s If Not Now, When? | Book Marks
- An era really has ended: On Michiko Kakutani’s departure from the New York Times. | Vulture
- “What accounts for Bradbury’s reach—his scope, his influence?” Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury. | The Paris Review
- Exploring the hometown of August Wilson, “an artist who had an unwavering commitment to chronicling both the triumphs and the painful setbacks of African-Americans.” | The New York Times
- “Women clamored to participate from the moment the second Klan reappeared.” An excerpt from Linda Gordon’s The Second Coming of the KKK. | BuzzFeed Reader
- I tend to let poetry happen whenever it does: An interview with Hala Alyan. | Fanzine
- “Sometimes 19 was too young and too old at exactly the same time.” Announcing a new serial literary project from Electric Literature. | Electric Literature
- Delving into the “anarchical and darkly inspiring depths” of Kaneko Fumiko’s memoir. | The Awl
Also on Lit Hub: On the false equivalency of wealth with worth · How restaurant “fauxstalgia” is killing the big city · Read from Jean-Marie Blas de Robles latest novel, The Island of Point Nemo.
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