Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1957, Italo Calvino’s letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party is published in L’Unita.
- “I want to live in a world where we can finally hear Palestinian laughter unburdened by the promise of a cruel future…” Nabil Echchaibi on finding joy amidst the crush of occupation. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Lena Valencia on writing place like a character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest. | Lit Hub Craft
- Helen Phillips recommends literature about the near future by Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Finding literary inspiration in 15th-century Italian poet Luigi da Porto, Romeo and Juliet’s original creator. | Lit Hub Biography
- Kapka Kassabova explores a history of nomadic pastoralism in Southeastern Europe. | Lit Hub History
- “The mentality of sticking something out to the bitter end often ends in exactly that: a bitter fig we never wanted in the first place.” Kat Tang on giving up writing (and starting over again). | Lit Hub Craft
- “I made my way to room 237 so the secretary could give me the paperwork, then to the Babinski building, named after an early-twentieth-century neurologist.” Read from Adèle Rosenfeld’s novel Jellyfish Have No Ears, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I am powerfully drawn to the way mystics experience what they experience, and then think, speak, and write about that experience.” Simon Critchley on mysticism. | The Paris Review
- Paula Mejía explores the literature of hating summer. | Dirt
- Erotica sales have skyrocketed recently, thanks to the reading tastes of Gen Z and Millennials. | The Guardian
- Jesmyn Ward on how she first discovered Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison. | The Washington Post
- In the age of AI, what separates humans from machines? “Writing poems that make your girl cry—add that to the list of abilities that used to make (some) humans unique but no longer do.” | The New Yorker
- Ashley Dawson on why capitalism and renewable energy are at odds with one another. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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