Lit Hub Daily: August 22, 2018
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1904, writer Kate Chopin, pictured here with her children in New Orleans in 1877, dies.
- “I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for over 25 years now: don’t think!” Writing advice from the great Ray Bradbury. | Lit Hub
- There are many cases to be made for impeaching Donald Trump… This is one of them, as laid out by three legal scholars. |Lit Hub
- “Relationships between writers never work out. We know this. They fall apart.” When it didn’t work out with a living writer, Nell Stevens turned to the 19th century. |Lit Hub
- Are human genes changing right along with culture and technology? On the age of epigenetics. |Lit Hub
- Meet the 18th-century widow who invented an art form at age 72. (Seriously, though, this was the clickbait-iest line we could come up with. Just read it. It’s lovely.) |Lit Hub
- On Gertrude Stein’s lifelong love of crime fiction, and what happened the night she met Dashiell Hammett at a party. | CrimeReads
- “Literary reviews at their best are not just ‘takes’ but landscapes of context, revealing facets difficult to grasp when you read a book in isolation.” An interview with writer and critic Julian Lucas. | Book Marks
- John Green would assign Octavia Butler to high schoolers; Julia Alvarez recommends The Epic of Gilgamesh. 10 authors on which books they’d add to the curriculum. | New York Times
- “In the ritual of tea . . . I’ve found what I traveled halfway around the world in search of after college.” Ann Tashi Slater on reconnecting with her Tibetan roots. | Tin House
- “It sits, with monkish, folded hands and asks for nothing. It never shouts. It never pushes.” An ode to the color gray. | The Paris Review
- Et tu, Rory Gilmore? Sophie Gilbert on the tired trope of the unethical female journalist, from Never Been Kissed to Gilmore Girls and Sharp Objects. | The Atlantic
- “A strange thing happens to your mind when you close yourself off to the world of the imagination. Without fiction, you begin to lose the ability to see beyond your circumstances.” On Jane Eyre, “women’s classics,” and Orthodox Judaism. | Electric Literature
- Park Chan-Wook’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s bestselling novel The Little Drummer Girl is coming to AMC this November. | Deadline
- “She does not want to be alone, but to be left alone.” Was Greta Garbo a recluse, or just a perfect Mosfhegh-ian heroine? | Garage
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