Lit Hub Daily: January 12, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
- For the love of plants: Orion’s Amy Brady recommends 11 books on nature and conservation coming out in 2024. | Lit Hub Nature
- An ode to acknowledgements: Sarah Wheeler on the joy of learning about the village behind a book. | Lit Hub
- “These women discover both the full gleaming extent and the stark wanting scarcity of what beauty can buy you.” Celine Saintclare on fictional women who use beauty as currency. | Lit Hub
- Hisham Matar’s My Friends, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires, and Rachel Slade’s Making it in America all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “No, it’s never just right when our work is commodified. People speak for themselves.” Priya Guns on writing in times in crisis. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Bisected by a precise blow of the spade, the slug writhed a moment longer: then it moved no more.” Read from Michel Mari’s new novel, Verdigris. | Lit Hub Fiction
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“Zambreno lets her subjects crawl all over her; she observes them patiently and without discrimination.” Katy Waldman profiles Kate Zambreno. | The New Yorker
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National lawsuits challenging book bans are beginning to gain traction. | Los Angeles Times
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“You know, Mom, our younger kid says, beating yourself up isn’t a hobby. I’m preparing, I tell them. For what? they say. For January.” Lynn Steger Strong on years of Januarys. | The Paris Review
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Random House will publish the posthumous memoir of Lisa Marie Presley in October. | People
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“Elon Musk has not changed the world. He is not a great innovator. He is not a genius. He is not taking the human species anywhere in particular. He’s boring. Even his faults are boring!” Sam Kriss considers Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk. | The Point
