Lit Hub Daily: February 1, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1884, the first Oxford English Dictionary is published by James A.H. Murray.
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Amanda Chemeche talks to Alex Auder, daughter of Warhol Superstar Viva Hoffman, about growing up in the Chelsea Hotel and memories of a different New York. | Lit Hub
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“What strikes me is that…even the experts don’t always understand what they’re looking at.” On how much scientists still don’t know about tornados. | Lit Hub
- What’s on Diana Khoi Nguyen’s nightstand? “A mixed pile of works I’m encountering for the first time, rereading, or purposefully savoring so as to extend the exquisiteness of each page.” | Lit Hub
- The marriage between digital surveillance companies and federal agencies like ICE is putting immigrant rights on the line. | Lit Hub
- Literary film and TV are sweeping the screens in February. | Lit Hub
- “In a world where tech billionaires dominate so much of our culture, it’s troubling to see books treated like mere vessels for self-betterment.” Maris Kreizman asks why tech bros think books need to be saved. | Lit Hub
- “It’s hard to save thousands by pounds and pennies. It’s harder to send what you’ve scratched together to a country on fire.” Read from Leo Vardiashvili’s new novel, Hard by a Great Forest. | Lit Hub Fiction
- You might find your next favorite title on your school district’s banned book list. | The Los Angeles Times
- “The second tallest building west of the Mississippi is San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, whose resemblance to a dildo or penis is often noted.” Rebecca Solnit on the devastation wrought upon San Francisco by the Silicon Valley crowd. | London Review of Books
- Verse lovers, rejoice. After four years, Poets House has reopened. | Publishers Weekly
- “There has never been a worse time to be a UFO skeptic.” You know you want to read Nicholson Baker on this latest bout of alien fever. | NY Mag
- A proposed bill would make Utah public school teachers criminally liable if banned books are found in their classrooms. | The Salt Lake Tribune
- “Stagg is not a doomer. She does feel the energy, and seeks it out; some of her friends are still making art in New York, and taking risks to do so.” James Duesterberg on Natasha Stagg’s millennial realism. | The Point
