Lit Hub Daily: August 22, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1893, Dorothy Parker is born.
- Andrew Smith on the retro computer science debate that foretold our current technological fears. | Lit Hub Technology
- “She is overcome at one point with rar, an untranslatable word that connotes a kind of Arctic madness, where she is bewitched by the overpowering full moon.” Colin Dickey on Christiane Ritter’s essential memoir of the north. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Are you the asshole if you skip your friend’s book launch? Maybe! Kristen Arnett dishes out bookish advice. | Lit Hub Craft
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Danez Smith’s reading list, featuring Andre Perry, Nicole Sealey, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “You feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- What Greenland’s melting ice signals about the past and future of global warming. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “It was at a spring carnival in Central Kentucky, sometime after the Second World War, that I first saw her.” Read from Gayl Jones’ novel, The Unicorn Woman. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Children’s librarian Sylvie Shaffer fields questions and offers book recommendations for all manner of young readers. | The Washington Post
- Nneka M. Okona remembers Toni Morrison through her food. | Harper’s Bazaar
- “Today’s activists are grasping for language with which to describe the violence that they see unfolding.” Linda Kinstler on the bitter fight over the meaning of “genocide.” | The New York Times Magazine
- Read correspondence between Helen Vendler and Christopher Bollas. | The Paris Review
- “I consider a poet’s job to consist of three things: writing about the society, the time, and the country.” Leeladhar Jagoori on nature in Hindi poetry. | Asymptote
- How Emily Dickinson’s letters inform what we know about the poet. | The New Yorker
