Lit Hub Daily: January 17, 2020

• “An air of sexism still permeates the current political landscape.” Amber Tamblyn on a woman’s right to choose (from multiple women candidates). | Lit Hub Politics
• On contemporary minimalism’s maximal lies: Andru Okun reads Kyle Chayka, Jenny Odell, and Oli Mould. | Lit Hub
• “What would you have done?” Rory MacLean on the Hungarian people, and the questions that haunt them. | Lit Hub History
• “Extreme polarization, the establishment’s bête noire, is in fact the only solution.” Why political centrism is useless when it comes to immigration policy. | Lit Hub Politics
• Andrew R.M. Smith explains how LBJ’s War On Poverty changed a young George Foreman’s life. | Lit Hub History
• How to just f*cking say no: Sarah Knight offers some tips on confronting your internal Yes-Man. | Lit Hub
• Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness, Joanna Kavenna’s Zed, and Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “The real villains are the forces that tell men they must be providers and protectors, and that if they fail they may as well not be men at all.” Ani Katz on toxic masculinity and family annihilation. | CrimeReads
• Amazon is publishing commercial fiction by famous authors—and “creating a marketplace that omits publishers altogether.” | The New Republic
• Caroline Calloway is releasing a book called Scammer, which she says will be “a pretty object that you can hug and display and cherish, while also giving you an escape hatch from your life.” | BuzzFeed News
• Max Czollek, a German Jewish author, says embracing “otherness” among marginalized people is vital to reckoning with Germany’s past.  | The New York Times
• These four female authors, including Simone de Beauvoir, were nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. | Book Riot
• Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe house is set to become Maryland’s first official literary landmark. | The Washington Post
• Christopher Tolkien, the Lord of the Rings author’s son, has died at 95. Christopher drew many of the original maps of Middle Earth and edited much of his father’s posthumously published work. | The Guardian
• “These are points on a line: the rise of potential, then the particularly feminized fall embedded in gentle, hetero domesticity”: An anonymous author on gendered jealousy and her relationship with an abusive male writer. | Longreads

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