Lit Hub Daily: December 9, 2022

TODAY: In 1793, the inaugural issue of New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is published.   

• ICYMI: Here are our favorite Lit Hub stories of 2022. | Lit Hub

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• Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of writing: “This stuff matters. It’s ligature.” | Lit Hub Craft

• In praise of transnational literature: a reading list. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Family secrets: Margaret K. Nelson considers how enduring anti-Semitism created false identities and hidden Jewish heritage. | Lit Hub History

• On the literary and personal life of the prolific Anton Chekhov: “We know from Chekhov’s thousands of pages of writing that the challenge of his life was to free himself to feel the entirety of his humanity.” | Lit Hub Biography

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• What to read before and after the new PBS documentary The Adventures of Saul Bellow. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• The best reviewed graphic novels and literature in translation of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub

• “Never has Coetzee enjoyed an uncomplicated relationship with language, least of all the English language.” Colin Marshall on J.M. Coetzee’s choice to publish his latest novel in Spanish. | The New Yorker

• From Kaveh Akbar’s Pilgrim Bell to Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, a poetry gift guide. | The Rumpus

• Gretchen McCullogh considers the strange case of the shortened form of “usual.” | The Atlantic

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• “As book lovers themselves, they know how important it is to make the publishing industry a better, more equitable, more sustainable place.” Kim Kelly reports on the HarperCollins strike. | Fast Company

• Elisa Gabbert talks to Lincoln Michel about writing poetry, criticism, and tweets. | Counter Craft

• Johanna Winant reflects on three “notoriously difficult and undeniably monumental” works of modernism, a hundred years on. | Boston Review

Also on Lit Hub: On the metaphors of mathematical models • When a medical emergency reveals a long-hidden history of cancer • Read from Maria Jose Ferrada’s newly translated novel, How to Turn Into a Bird (tr. Elizabeth Bryer)

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