Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1848, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is published.
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What can writing soap operas teach you about writing novels? Ellen Feldman breaks it down. | Lit Hub Craft
- The truth is out there, and it’s about Anna Fort. Kirsten Bakis on the undersung wife of paranormalist Charles Fort. | Lit Hub History
- “Here then was a grotesque conflict, declared a genocide by the International Court of Justice in the Hague, reduced to the level of conundrum Brown usually deploys in her c-suite life lessons.” Rafia Zakaria on Brené Brown’s failure in addressing genocide in Gaza. | Lit Hub Politics
- Dan Sheehan interviews Chris Chalk about playing James Baldwin: “There are more voices, and there’s more talent being honored in those spaces, so we are now in a place where we can see Baldwin shine. What a great time to see him.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Dr. Todd Boyd on Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer win and hip-hop’s long journey to American dominance. | Lit Hub Music
- “The otter has been here through all this time; it was here before people came, before villages and towns and roads grew up.” Miriam Darlington in search of the elusive, eternal otter. | Lit Hub Nature
- “The Madonna was not some little madam under the influence of alcohol and other beverages bereft of dosage instructions. She was no prophetess of misfortune and tall tales derived from some unknown gutter.” Read from Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s new novel, The Villain’s Dance. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Jordan resisted the pull of American exceptionalism; she felt that the fate of Black people in the States was linked eternally to the fate of Palestinians…” On June Jordan’s poem “Moving Toward Home.” | Lux Magazine
- An interview with Paul Yamazaki, chief buyer at City Lights Bookstore. | The Paris Review
- Lilly Dancyger talks to Leslie Jamison about her “deeply, entirely personal” memoir, Splinters. | The Millions
- Writer, political scientist, and civil rights leader Charles V. Hamilton has died. | The New York Times
- “Looking at the world, one might well believe that too few people have read the scenes that would soften their hearts.” Claudia Roth Pierpont on books in wartime. | The New Yorker
- Casey Plett considers the strange appeal of bad news. | The Walrus
