Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca dies.
- “I’m drawn to these sorts of projects because I’m interested in the way all writing is collaborative.” Sofia Samatar on collage, community, and the loneliness of publishing. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Can you really choose your own adventure? Ruben Reyes Jr. considers the role of systemic power structures both on and off the page. | Lit Hub Craft
- Why there might still be hope for the Earth’s oceans: “A worse version of today’s ocean is not inevitable, but underestimating the scale of the problems and what needs doing to tackle them would be unwise.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “I worry about how a second Trump presidency might usher in a new, far more restrictive era for queer Americans and trans people specifically.” Gabrielle Bellot on the joys and fears of trans motherhood. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Read “Two Stanzas,” a poem by Zbigniew Herbert from the collection Reconstruction of the Poet. | Lit Hub Poetry
- It’s not just Elon Musk sending his trash into space. Iris Gottlieb warns us against treating the galaxy like a trash can. | Lit Hub Technology
- “I was watching a woman who was being held by the neck while a voice says, ‘You cow. You stupid cow.’” Read from Jane Campbell’s novel, Interpretations of Love. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Who would buy a Trump-branded Bible? Apparently, enough people to net him $300,000. | The New Republic
- “Just why is it that so many Nietzsche readers are very young men? What is Nietzsche offering them?” Mat Messerschmidt considers Nietzsche and our crisis of masculinity. | The Point
- Héctor Tobar revisits Asturias’s Men of Maize. | The Paris Review
- On fact-checking Hillbilly Elegy (and how that complicates J.D. Vance’s story). | The New Yorker
- Mark Haddon on writing with long COVID brain fog. | The Guardian
- Eugene Marten talks to Blake Butler about writing and revising. | Interview
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