Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2020

TODAY: In 1887, German author and playwright Anna Elisabet Weirauch is born.

• Love in a time of terror: Barry Lopez on natural landscapes, metaphorical living, and Warlpiri identity. | Lit Hub Nature
• Gretchen Cherington remembers early life with her father, the great poet Richard Eberhart. | Lit Hub Memoir
• No one ever said nuclear Armageddon was easy: Bradley Garrett on the hard work of prepping for the end of the world in Paradise Valley. | Lit Hub Politics
• “Empathetic writing means that we, as writers, must put our own humanity on the table too.” Rónán Hession on the quest for kindness in fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
• A river of justice: David Marquis on the collective power of one into many. | Lit Hub Politics
• Raven Leilani’s Luster, Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, and Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “It’s time to abolish our conception of what it means to be a mother in America and rebuild it on a policy level.” Lyz Lenz on the pandemic and the extent to which we fail mothers in this country. | Time
• “I was now a professor at the same university—in the same department even—as someone who’d been dubbed the worst novelist in history, and the proximity of that verdict haunted me.” Lessons from someone else’s devastating pan. | The New Republic
• Wole Soyinka has written a letter of solidarity on the 100th day of the imprisonment of detained Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala. | The Guardian
• “As long as this country has existed people have had an appetite for crime stories.” Sarah Weinman on reimagining true crime. | Jezebel
• Feeling stranded? Travel with Stephanie Danler to Spain, “the country that gives me the space to imagine wildly.” | Condé Nast Traveler
• For Ottessa Mosfegh, art is “an expression of God within ourselves. It’s a transmission of our spirit.” | The Nation
• Hachette imprint Center Street made an offer on Donald Trump, Jr.’s second book. So why is he self-publishing it? | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: “Because of the ten plagues, the Nile River ran red with blood.” A poem by Jill Bialosky • Waking up in America as a refugee • Read an excerpt from Jill McCorkle’s new novel Hieroglyphics.

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