Lit Hub Daily: February 15, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1869, Ghalib, the preeminent Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire, dies.
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“Not every novel needs to be read as a radio drama.” Maris Kreizman on overacting and audiobooks. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Holly Haworth on finding rest in creative labor: “The weight of the work we have to do as artists, in a world in which time is money, can press so heavily upon us that, well, we need to lie down sometimes.” | Lit Hub Craft
- From Leslie Feinberg to Jack Halberstam, Hannah Levene considers reading butch lesbians on and off the page. | Lit Hub Criticism
- The Annotated Nightstand: What Kelly Link is reading now and next. | Lit Hub
- “I wasn’t built for the endless travel, the emotional highs and lows of nightly performance, or the time away from my writing desk, where I was always happiest.” Scott Guild on music and storytelling. | Lit Hub Craft
- On postpartum publishing and how it feels after bringing a new book into the world. | Lit Hub Craft
- Five book reviews you need to read this week, including Amal El-Mohtar on Kelly Link’s The Book of Love and Megan Milks on Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “She had known him at once. His younger face is still visible within this older one, though this one is creased now, hollowed here, fuller there.” Read from Roxana Robinson’s new book, Leaving. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Sometimes, you and a book are more than just friends. Here are five types of book crushes. | Reactor
- A federal judge has dismissed four out of six claims brought by authors against Open AI in a copyright lawsuit. | Publishers Weekly
- “Human beings exist in a precarious equilibrium between body, self, and world such that there are no givens for behavior: the need for equilibrium is something that confronts humans at every moment…” Carl Gelderloos on Helmuth Plessner. | Public Books
- Gen Z book clubs are having a moment (which is unsurprising, because “young people famously love books”). | Dazed
- Attention, US history nerds: Here are five presidential libraries to which to drag your loved ones. | The New York Times
- New fiction and nonfiction for food lovers, coming this spring. | Eater
