Lit Hub Daily: January 11, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1903, South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Stewart Paton is born.
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose up and won an underdog political victory. | Lit Hub Politics
- Lauren Groff talks about what it’s like to open a bookstore in Florida right now. | Lit Hub
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Selfishly curated experiences: İnci Atrek on how planning trips can inform novel writing. | Lit Hub
- Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and seven more great American poems about fire. | Lit Hub
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“In the Countryside.” A poem-comic by Lauren Haldeman and Jesse Nathan. | Lit Hub
- “Li Xinwei was the only person who knew Alva was HentaiLord.” Read an excerpt from River East, River West, Aube Rey Lescure’s new novel. | Lit Hub Fiction
- A Florida school district has banned three dictionaries for their descriptions of sexual conduct. | Vanity Fair
- “‘Families are ingenious at teaching us how to love’… Friendship, on the other hand, is even more curious because ‘it implicates you into another’s life’ in a way that’s not at all fatalistic.” Hisham Matar discusses his new novel, My Friends. | The New York Times
- Apparently Queen Camilla has a podcast about books… and apparently it’s “deeply generic.” | The Guardian
- “This interlocked campaign of financial, political, and reputational attacks on dissidents in American universities is seemingly designed to secure the inter-generational transfer of unquestioned support for Israel.” Walter Johnson on the past three months at Harvard. | n+1
- Today in predictable outcomes: scammy AI generated books are flooding Amazon. | Wired
