Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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“She could never be anything but herself, and as herself she was absolutely riveting on-screen.” Alice Sedgwick Wohl on Edie Sedgwick’s first movies with Andy Warhol. | Lit Hub Biography
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Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, offers a reading list for coping with secondary trauma. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“Why should art need to appease and excite everyone at once?” Gabrielle Bellot considers the new Sandman adaptation, its mixed reception, and why art doesn’t care if you like it. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Andrew Keen’s predictions for 2042: Say goodbye to Trump, cryptocurrency, and “America’s pathetic political gerontocracy.” | Lit Hub Politics
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When Rick James fought to get Black artists on MTV—and “served as a sacrificial lamb in the fray.” | Lit Hub Music
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Mary Gaitskill’s advice for writing political fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
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New titles from Beth Macy, Édouard Louis, and Sidik Fofana all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Lynne Feeley explores the growing body of eco-fiction. | The Nation
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What defines the millennial generation? Sarah Wasserman on how several authors address the question. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Douglas Preston, president of the Authors Guild, discusses the danger of consolidation in the publishing industry. | Los Angeles Times
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Tina Jordan looks back at Gentleman’s Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson, the “it book” of the summer 75 years ago. | The New York Times
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“The job of the book reviewer is scrutiny. We do not work for authors.” Christian Lorentzen on the problem with “recommendation mentality.” | Christian Lorentzen’s Diary
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Jennifer Wilson considers Pushkin’s conception of his Blackness, through the lens of his unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather. | NYRB
Also on Lit Hub: Finding healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company • Rebecca Woolf on the lies that make up a marriage • Read from Coco Picard’s latest novel, The Healing Circle
