Lit Hub Daily: August 6, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1809, Lord Tennyson is born.
- “Perhaps it isn’t such a big deal if the algorithm knows me well enough…but what if that kind of surveillance is taken to its logical extreme?” Helen Phillips on writing speculative fiction in the age of AI. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Take it from a life-long fainter–fiction writers are getting fainting and swooning all wrong. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Both the Princess and Ellen tell the reader the exquisite and ugly truths of the world exactly as they see it.” Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s The Princess of 72nd Street. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Regina Porter, Helen Phillips, Roxane Gay, and more! These 26 books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Alison on fictionalizing the tumultuous and toxic relationship between architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier. | Lit Hub Art
- “I made myself at home in my mother. I drank her host-blood for nutrients, bathed in it for coziness and warmth, paying nothing in rent.” Read from Ismet Prcic’s novel Unspeakable Home. | Lit Hub Fiction
- How much help did J.D. Vance have writing Hillbilly Elegy? Sam Kashner talks to some of the people behind the reductive bestseller. | Air Mail
- “A child at play is also at work: solving problems, making discoveries, responding to challenges of his own devising. Harold clearly enjoys what he does — he is often smiling, his eyes wide — but he also takes his job seriously. ” A.O. Scott on Harold and the Purple Crayon writer Crockett Johnson. | The New York Times
- Writers Against the War on Gaza has called for a boycott of PEN America. | WAWOG
- “The poet was ‘entangled’ in conflicts and identifications he would in other circumstances have preferred to avoid.” On the reluctant radicalism of Seamus Heaney. | Jacobin
- H.M.A. Leow on princesses in classic Malay literature. | JSTOR Daily
- In Utah, 13 books have now been banned from public schools state-wide. | The Salt Lake Tribune
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