Lit Hub Daily: August 23, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1939, Sidney Howard dies.
- Rebecca Solnit on JD Vance: “Vance seems to assume that large numbers of native-born white people don’t constitute ethnic enclaves and that communities of immigrants somehow do.” | Lit Hub
- “I realized that it wasn’t true that research should be left to the experts. In fact, research was feeling more like a human right.” Pepper Stetler explores the ableist past and present of IQ testing. | Lit Hub History
- Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and Moon Unit Zapa’s Earth to Moon all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
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Ledia Xhoga on the joy and pain of letting go (of half your novel). | Lit Hub
- Gina María Balibrera paints a portrait of Salvadoran artist and wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Surrealism’s forgotten woman. | Lit Hub Art
- Joy Neumeyer on the actor Oleg Dal, the Narcissus myth, and the lingering effects of the Soviet Union’s rejection of feminism. | Lit Hub Politics
- “The earth streams with molten gold. It flows in every direction, around the scattered rocks, gleaming in the light of the fires that rage all around.” Read from Jennifer Saint’s novel, Hera. | Lit Hub Fiction
- How a recent push to diversify the publishing industry fell short. | The New York Times
- On a reception for Philippe Petit, French highwire artist and subject of the documentary Man on Wire. | The Paris Review
- Gozo Yoshimasu asks, “What is poetry?” | Words Without Borders
- “Eventually he gave up on the interviews and started reading Marx.” Looking back at Bertolt Brecht. | New York Review of Books
- Brian Nicholson considers Rescue Party and other comics of COVID lockdown. | The Comics Journal
- Jeffrey Fleishman on how “hell hath no fury like a librarian scored” amid the ongoing tide of book censorship. | Los Angeles Times
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