Lit Hub Daily: August 26, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1874, Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is born.
- How a Viktor E. Frankl article on the collective neuroses from 1955 reveals the timelessness of modern malaise. | Lit Hub History
- “The story of the Dog Lady isn’t the kind of standard pet tale that one usually encounters.” On the complex dynamics of animal rescue. | Lit Hub Biography
- Bunkong Tuon recommends Anthony Veasna So, Vichet Chum, Sokunthary Svay, and more authors who speak to the Cambodian American experience. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How Weimar Berlin inspired Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles: “Isherwood himself was on the alert, bearing witness to the unfolding disaster.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Jonathan Lethem explores graffiti as visual and written expression within a rapidly-gentrifying New York City. | Lit Hub Art
- “Man is meat. So said one of the broken wrestlers who taught Dom to bump and run the ropes in a drop-ceiling gym spitting distance from the Mason-Dixon.” Read from Chris Koslowski’s novel, Kayfabe. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Davenport’s gift is a kind of literary eros: His affinity for these artists is so great that, even as he brilliantly analyzes their texts, he can’t help but try to conjure them to life.” Examining the high modernism of Guy Davenport. | The Nation
- Lincoln Michel poses some theories about why some books stand the test of time and others are forgotten. | Counter Craft
- Susan Bernofsky on translating Yoko Tawada: “Great writers use language in really weird ways, but if it’s a great writer, the work absorbs the linguistic strangeness…” | Asymptote
- Amy Joyce on how Judy Blume shaped a generation of readers. | The Washington Post
- On the ethics of violence in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. | JSTOR Daily
- An illustrated dispatch from the Emily Dickinson Museum. | New York Review of Books
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