Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2022

TODAY: In 1687, Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela, a book many consider the first modern English novel, is born.  

• “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

• “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

• Andrew Keen’s predictions for 2042: Say goodbye to Trump, cryptocurrency, and “America’s pathetic political gerontocracy.” | Lit Hub Politics

• 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

• New titles from Beth Macy, Édouard Louis, and Sidik Fofana all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Lynne Feeley explores the growing body of eco-fiction. | The Nation

• What defines the millennial generation? Sarah Wasserman on how several authors address the question. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• 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

• “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

• 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

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