Lit Hub Daily: January 13, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1599, Edmund Spenser dies in London. He is buried in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey.
- Lauren Carroll Harris takes a deep dive into the class politics of tradwife influencers. | Lit Hub Politics
- Enemies of the state, in the US and Oz: Aaron Boehmer on the perennially relevant political message of Wicked. | Lit Hub Film
- “I think documentary poetics often make evident the politics of historical moments and the ethics of poetic construction.” Danielle Legros Georges on Haiti and the poetry of letter writing. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jonas Olofsson on the scent of memories: “Smells can only bring to life the personal experiences, those that have a clear sense of personal presence and emotional charge.” | Lit Hub Science
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Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali on memory, c-PTSD, and the ethics of re-imagining. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Article continues after advertisement - “Once again Jeff and his wife, Laurie, with Mattie and her husband, Daniel, were driving down to the coastal house they’d rented together for seventeen consecutive summers—a record maybe for two-couple compatibility.” Read from John Rolfe Gardiner’s new story collection, North of Ordinary. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Paul M. Renfro examines the end of American optimism. | The New Republic
- “Like the things we eat or the ways we move our bodies, the books we consume get talked about as yet another avenue for self-improvement.” Tajja Isen on the anxiety of reading goals. | The Walrus
- Teju Cole on photographs of the Los Angeles fires: “But these images are fugitive for another reason—their function has changed. They bring us news of devastation, quick news that will soon be supplanted by other news.” | The New Yorker
- How Federico Garcia Lorca influenced Leonard Cohen. | Far Out
- Middle Earth goes anime: Gerry Canavan on a new representation of an iconic Tolkien character. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Peter Gordon on what we can still learn from Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School. | The Nation
