Lit Hub Daily: January 10, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1928 George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse’s musical “Rosalie” premieres on Broadway.
- Murder, mayhem, moonstruck love, and… Timothée Chalamet. Here’s your 2024 literary film and TV preview. | Lit Hub Film & TV
- On the long, lonely apprenticeship of the writing life: Kayla Min Andrews remembers her mother, author Katherine Min. | Lit Hub
- Autofiction without the auto: On Javier Cercas’ outward-looking, self-centered fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Thicker than water: Angie Romines offers a brief history of family violence in Appalachian Kentucky. | Lit Hub Memoir
- From the great Bohumil Hrabal to the charms of Anita Brookner, Maria Hummel recommends her favorite hotel novels. | Lit Hub
- “Caroline is standing in the snow. She is so cold that the phrase freezing to death enters her mind.” Read an excerpt from Cynthia Zarin’s new novel, Inverno. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Thornton Wilder’s literary estate names its first non-family-member executor in Jeremy McCarter | Deadline
- “‘Am I really to have a goal other than Art itself?’ he asked his close friend Maxime Du Camp in 1851—and by this point, it was a rhetorical question.” Scott Bradfield considers Flaubert’s collected letters. | The New Republic
- Johannes Lichtman on visiting the CIA’s creative writing group (where no one is writing a spy novel). | The Paris Review
- “Your guests should be neither too talkative nor too brilliant.” Amy McCarthy digs through the etiquette guides of yesteryear to find the strangest entertainment advice. | Eater
- Marc Da Costa considers the digital archive of the migration crisis. | Lapham’s Quarterly
