Lit Hub Daily: December 11, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1918, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is born.
- Dr. Guy Leschziner explores the science behind the more unsavory aspects of our personalities. | Lit Hub Science
- Sara B. Franklin on reading children’s lit in troubled times | Lit Hub Memoir
- What do we really need from our literary heroes? | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Every food tells a story, and like any good story, it’s the details that matter.” | Lit Hub Food
- David S. Cho explores ideas of homeland, belonging and identity in a pioneering contribution to Asian American literature. | Lit Hub History
- “The stone would outlast everyone, would transcend the memory of those who were there, and those who came after, and would see Topaz and its eventual ruin beyond the end. But eternity came quick.” | Lit Hub History
- Read an excerpt from Osamu Dazai’s The Beggar Student | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Besides the luxurious hotel, the big draw is, of course, the promise of new insight into one of the most influential, and controversial, modern philosophers.” Tania Roettger reports from this year’s Nietzsche Colloquium. | The Dial
- Olivia Liang and Jamaica Kincaid discuss the political significance of the garden. | Granta
- “Why should I care about alien abduction? I felt that way just being in a car.” Patricia Lockwood on E.M. Forster and The X-Files. | London Review of Books
- Brontez Purnell considers Madonna’s performance in the (triumphant, messy) Desperately Seeking Susan. | LARB
- Sarah Jessica Parker will be one of the judges for the 2025 Booker Prize. | The New York Times
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