Lit Hub Daily: December 22, 2023

TODAY: In 1945, Holden Caulfield makes his first appearance in J. D. Salinger’s story “I’m Crazy,” published in Collier’s.

“One morning, we didn’t find homes, just heaps of red words piled like dirty clothes on sidewalks.” Read “Dead Cats Continue to Meow,” a poem by Nasser Rabah. | Lit Hub Poetry
From Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. to American Fiction, we’ve rounded up the 15 best literary adaptations of the year. | Lit Hub Film & TV
19 new paperbacks to check out in January. | The Hub
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli assault. | The Hub
“Your only mission among the void is to not end up like all the others, even while knowing that you will.” Blake Butler on (not) finding your voice. | Lit Hub
“Anything that happens in the present is, by definition, imaginable. We can see it.” Read Masha Gessen’s Arendt Prize lecture. | n+1
J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate has won a court order to destroy Lord of the Rings superfan Demetrious Polychron’s unauthorized sequel to the books. | The New York Times
“While of course the material is political, with a point of view, it’s very much not a polemic.” Daniel Torday on teaching Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail. | Slate
The secret history of Patricia Highsmith’s life in comics (in comic form). | The New Yorker

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