
Lit Hub Daily: February 19, 2020
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1917, Carson McCullers is born.
- Charlotte Alter on how the well-educated and downwardly mobile found (a gentle version of) socialism. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Football fever can serve as a collective insistence that there are other moral logics and priorities in this world.” On the biggest cultural phenomenon the world has ever known: football (aka soccer). | Lit Hub Sports
- From Jane Jacobs to Larissa MacFarquhar, Conor Dougherty on the books that helped him understand the housing crisis in America. | Lit Hub Politics
- Classically trained concert pianists are humans, too: Stephen Hough on the anxieties of a life in music. | Lit Hub Music
- “When you’re dying, I wondered, who do you call? Peter dialed in to a conference call.” On the devastating fallout of addiction and corporate burnout. | Lit Hub Memoir
- On sorrow, roadside shrines, and the brushed steel stereo from a 1987 Nissan Maxima: Ander Monson considers the elegies all around us. | Lit Hub
- Noir in the “Granite City”: Paul French on the rise of hard-boiled fiction in Aberdeen, Scotland’s grittiest metropolis. | CrimeReads
- A month of literary listening: AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of February. | Book Marks
- “A lot of the messiness in Vanessa’s psyche comes from a culture that celebrates abuse as something from which great art can be made.” Read a profile of My Dark Vanessa author Kate Elizabeth Russell. | Vulture
- OK Doomer: On the recent trend of “doomer lit,” which is what you’d get if cli-fi were a little more melancholy and fatalistic. | WIRED
- “A funny writer is a writer to whom the reader gives a great deal of power, and gladly.” Lauren Groff on the subversion of Lorrie Moore’s work and wit. | New York Review of Books
- Penguin Random House is aiming to “fully” transition to green energy by 2022. | Publishers Weekly
- Calls to make February 18th “Lorde-Morrison Day”—in honor of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison’s shared birthday—are lighting Twitter up. | Fast Company
- “I couldn’t give up either of you”: Lily King on a different kind of love triangle. | Vogue
- “Some of us are still trying to have some fun before we die and, I’m sorry, clever men are very rarely fun.” On the perks (?) of dating a man who doesn’t read. | The Outline
Also on Lit Hub: Daily chronicles of life under quarantine at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak • Censorship and abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship • Read an excerpt from Märta Tikkanen’s novel in verse, The Love Story of the Century (trans. Stina Katchadourian).
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