Lit Hub Daily: August 30, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 2013, Seamus Heaney dies.
- “When it comes to creating villains, I must confess to writing with more fury than love.” Minrose Gwin on the challenge of creating complex villains. | Lit Hub Craft
- Frank Andre Guridy chronicles queer athletic activism and when the inaugural Gay Games came to San Francisco. | Lit Hub Sports
- Get your headphones ready–our friends at AudioFile Magazine have compiled their most anticipated audiobooks in September. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival is a Promise all feature among August’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- A new month brings new paperbacks. Here are the ones we’re most excited for in September, including work by Zadie Smith, Jesmyn Ward, Ben Lerner, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- From new seasons of modern classics to iconic throwbacks, we’ve compiled the literary film and TV you need to stream in September. | Lit Hub Film
- “In the last weeks of her pregnancy, Leya developed a headache that started behind her left eye, radiated vertically over her skull and down the back of her head into her neck.” Read from Kirti Bhadresa’s short story collection, An Astonishment of Stars. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Raven Leilani on the “digressive purgatory” of grief writing. | N+1
- “…when squatters called Le Bloc the biggest squat in Paris, one tended to believe them.” Inside an iconic Parisian squat. | The Paris Review
- Sarah Larson profiles cartoonist Ruben Bolling and examines why his style of political satire works. | The New Yorker
- The Authors Guild, six major publishers, and authors including Julia Alvarez, Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas are suing Florida over its book banning law. | Publishers Weekly
- On two retro teen horror novels about chronicling your friends on paper. | Reactor
- Leo Lasdun wonders if we’re at the beginning of the end of alt-lit. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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