Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2023

• Michael Wood wants to know: Why do we always forget that Marcel Proust is funny? | Lit Hub Humor

• What do writers do on Instagram? Cornelia Parker looks to Amit Chaudhuri, Andrew O’Hagan, Kamila Shamsie, and others. | Lit Hub Photography

• Christina Lamb on the widespread practice of sexual violence during wartime: “In every warzone I went to, I heard the same cry for justice.” | Lit Hub Politics

• “A veritable comedy for our times.” Rolando Pérez on Giannina Braschi’s groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish novel, Yo-Yo Boing! | Lit Hub Criticism

• Anna Funder’s Wifedom, Yunte Huang’s Daughter of the Dragon, and Jerome Charyn’s Ravage & Son all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “At its best, our literature is possessed of an expansive moral imagination about forgiveness that goes beyond legal redress and the payment of debts.” Ayana Mathis on literature and forgiveness. | The New York Times

• Feroz Rather considers what a truthful, empathetic novel about the nationalist strife in South Asia looks like. | Public Books

• Inside The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, which takes a “disruptive approach to the bio-musical.” | Los Angeles Times

• “Writing is something that everyone does and that many people believe they do well.” Xochitl Gonzalez on MFAs and ChatGPT. | The Atlantic

• Michelle Tea is launching a new press: Dopamine Books. | Publishers Weekly

Also on Lit Hub: The greatest Velmas of history and fiction, from Agatha Christie to Harriet the Spy • Yves Jeffcoat on writing that centers identity • Read from Genevieve Plunkett’s debut novel, In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel