Lit Hub Daily: February 1, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
Finding the order of things: Jennifer Croft on the pleasures and challenges of translating Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. | Lit Hub Translation
From Guillermo del Toro to Jack Reacher, here’s the literary film and TV you should be streaming this month. | Lit Hub Film and TV
In honor of the founding of the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation, Chiara Barzini revisits a 2018 conversation with her friend, the late, great editor behind Tyrant Books . | Lit Hub
Here are 20 new books out today worth checking out (or buying!). | The Hub
“Losing something priceless, out of stupidity, produces in one a specific kind of shame.” Lan Samantha Chang on the complicated relationship between writing and money. | Lit Hub
“The more I discover about her life, a figure emerges who is just as singular and trailblazing as her remarkable novel.” Lucy Scholes on why we should all be reading Kay Dick. | Lit Hub
Jillian Cantor on how the male point of view shapes the narrative of The Great Gatsby. | Lit Hub Criticism
Alternate-universe road trips, haunted spaceships, and pulpy gunslingers all feature in February’s most-anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy releases. | Book Marks
Delilah S. Dawson on character transformation in thrillers. | CrimeReads
WATCH: On Keen On, Christopher Schroeder discusses the digital future, Michael Waldman on the fight for voting rights, and Albert Wenger imagines a world after capital. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
“If the essay really is the intellectual bellwether of an age, America seems to have spent the last twenty years missing the big picture again and again.” Jackson Arn considers the contemporary American essay. | The Drift
Olga Tokarczuk talks to Rhian Sasseen about national borders, writing about women, and The Books of Jacob (translated by Jennifer Croft). | Yale Review
“How many children have you? I have 50 books.” Anna Holmes looks at the radical life of Margaret Wise Brown. | The New Yorker
Read George Sand’s 1867 argument for the vitality of public parks. | Places Journal
Here’s how parents and students are fighting school book bans in Texas. | Axios
After a Tennessee school district banned Maus, readers nationwide rushed to buy the book. | NPRHow a second-grader’s handwritten book became one of the most popular in an Idaho library’s collection. | Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Mary-Frances O’Connor recommends books for understanding life’s lows.
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