Lit Hub Daily: February 11, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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“The mark of a good story is in the telling, but it is also in the talking.” Destiny O. Birdsong on African American Vernacular English, interiority, and collective memory. | Lit Hub
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In praise of platonic love… and bonding over Prosecco. | Lit Hub Psychology
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“It’s not silly or even illogical to hug a tree, but it is pure madness to blindly continue destroying our only home.” Maeve Higgins on the toxic power of the political euphemism. | Lit Hub Climate Change
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Veronica Esposito considers the power of Narrative Therapy, which helps us “assimilate a galaxy’s-worth of human experience.” | Lit Hub
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Forget style: Chuck Klosterman on writing for a wide audience. | Lit Hub Craft
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Bethanne Patrick recommends 5 Books You May Have Missed in January. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People, Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland, and Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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“I’m impatient to get to the end of my story, although I don’t know what or where that ending will be.” Miriam Toewes journeys through time and family history. | The New Yorker
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These books go deep on the history of Russia and the conflict in Ukraine. | The Wall Street Journal
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A new issue of Apogee is dedicated to incarcerated writers and artists. | Apogee
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Hannah Joyner on how Kathryn Schulz’s new book honors “both the conjunction and continuity that her entwined experiences of losing and finding love have shown her.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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“When so moved, he could be highly expressive.” Geoffrey Roberts considers Stalin’s marginalia. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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Marlon James discusses writing realistic Black characters, finding inspiration in African folktales, and exploring power in fiction. | Boston Review
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“In the end, the show moves hearts and mountains by showing us healing as art and art as healing.” Justin Hairston on Station Eleven. | Bright Wall/Dark Room
Also on Lit Hub: On the unfortunate doom of Death on the Nile • Three poems by Rebin Kheder, translated from the Kurdish by Jiyar Homer and Isabel López • Read “A Volcano Is Born” by Brenda Lozano (tr. Heather Cleary) from McSweeney’s latest issue
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