Lit Hub Daily: December 4, 2023

TODAY: In 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” is published in The New Yorker, and the internet has opinions.  

• “The publishing world can start to look away from Frankfurt, London, and Bologna alone.” Jessica Powers reports from the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair. | Lit Hub

• Walden, freestyled: Edward Moreta Jr. on reimagining and reclaiming what it means to be Black in nature. | Lit Hub Nature

• Rebecca Morgan Frank rounds up December’s must-read poetry collections. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Gabriel Bump reflects on rereading his novel in the midst of profound grief. | Lit Hub

• “Salter was determined to stay alive until his five novels were recognized.” Jeffrey Meyers considers James Salter’s strange career. | Salmagundi Magazine

• Translators Megan McDowell and Esther Allen discuss the state of Latin American literature in translation. | AS/COA

• “I cannot know what does not speak of its own existence. I cannot fabricate a firm idea to mourn.” Rebecca May Johnson on the dramatic irony of pregnancy. | Granta

• At last: Tariq Ali on the death of Henry Kissinger. | Verso

• “I like to envision what Friedan might have made of the term ‘mother’ as reimagined via queer culture and now used predominantly of cis-het white women who exude self-possession and hauteur.” Hermione Hoby revisits the life and work of Betty Friedan. | The New Republic

Also on Lit Hub: December’s best sci-fi and fantasy books • When Homo sapiens became human • Read from Samantha Harvey’s latest novel, Orbital

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