Lit Hub Daily: January 11, 2021

TODAY: In 1890, Brazilian poet and novelist Oswald de Andrade is born.

• “This was an inside job, fomented by a corrupted and radicalized Republican Party.” Rebecca Solnit on September 11th, January 6th, and the choices we face as a nation. | Lit Hub Politics
• “The workbooks are where Bergman is boundless.” Karl Ove Knausgaard on the genius of Ingmar Bergman. | Lit Hub
• Salamishah Tillet on The Color Purple and the language of healing from trauma. | Lit Hub
• Learning to love Gatsby: Michael Farris Smith on the genesis of his fascination with Nick Carraway. | Lit Hub
• Caelainn Hogan on bearing witness to the legacy of Ireland’s mother and baby homes. | Lit Hub History
• Reading Ulysses by the numbers: Eric Bulson breaks down a surprisingly revealing literary technique. | Lit Hub
• Mateo Askaripour, Anna North, Kevin Barry, and more take the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub
• Pride and Prejudice, The Velveteen Rabbit, and more rapid-fire book recs from Gish Jen. | Book Marks
• “Emily Dickinson is our great poet of not getting any.” Three English professors in correspondence about the poems in season two of Dickinson. | Avidly
• Get ready for the post-Trump wave of Trump administration memoirs—starting with James Comey’s humbly titled Saving Justice. | NPR
• On the recently republished 1965 novel—about a US president “who appears to collapse into madness, threatens global chaos, and must be deposed from power to save the nation, if not the planet—that feels awfully prescient right now. | Vanity Fair
• Explore the literary trends of yesteryear with this look at 1920s Los Angeles’ Ivanhoe obsession. | Atlas Obscura
• Sign of the (bored, horny) times: people are reading so much fanfiction that they’re crashing the internet’s largest archive of it. | Vice
• Reading Jean Genet and Jenny Erpenbeck side by side underscores “how sanitized ethical language has become.” | Public Books
• Against the “ferociously dull” format of academic book reviews. | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Also on Lit Hub: The week in virtual book events • “Listening to Abida Parveen on Loop, I Understand Why I Miss Home and Why It Must Be So”: a poem by Tishani Doshi • Read from Eley Williams’ debut novel The Liar’s Dictionary.

 

---