Lit Hub Daily: December 5, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1967, Allen Ginsberg and Benjamin Spock are arrested at a Vietnam War protest.
- “I believe that ghosts are not merely here to haunt, but to shift the ways in which we see the parameters of a life.” Muriel Leung offers advice to those writing about the inhabitants of the afterlife. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Are you the asshole if you just don’t feel like reading anymore? Kristen Arnett answers this and your other awkward literary questions. | Lit Hub Craft
- Ashawnta Jackson talks to Christian Adofo, Liam Brickhill, and Lior Phillips about the history and future of African music. | Lit Hub Music
- “One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I’ve read in years.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “His library offers him a refuge for the soul, away from the demands of his offices…” Andrew Hui considers how to build a library, Montaigne’s way. | Lit Hub Libraries
- “When will my father open up his locked vault? For so long now I’ve been begging him to let me document his youth in Palestine.” Read from Omar Khalifah’s novel Sand-Catcher, translated by Barbara Romaine. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Sandra Cisneros on her mission to read recently banned books. | The New York Times
- Mark Harris explores the history of lesbian pulp fiction. | T Magazine
- “In his work, White argued that the sparks are all around us waiting to be whole, if only we can make the journey through the desert of our own defeat back to human status.” Ben Woollard on Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s search for spiritual meaning. | JSTOR Daily
- Apparently, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour book makes a strong case for editors. | Independent
- Molly Fischer looks back on Autobiography of a Face. | The New Yorker
- “Everyone, it seems, has a Harlan Ellison anecdote.” Anthony Aycock revisits the Dangerous Visions trilogy. | Reactor
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