Lit Hub Daily: January 17, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1904, Anton Chekhov’s last play, The Cherry Orchard, premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski (seen here, Scene from Act 3).
- Why nonfiction writers should try writing fiction (and vice versa). | Lit Hub
- It’s like sexual freedom was her only outlet. But she still blames her illness on repressed rage.” On the challenges of managing an open relationship. | Lit Hub
- The music of other tongues: Mira Rosenthal and Tomasz Różycki on translating rhyme and rhythm in poetry. | Lit Hub
- “People desperate to heal from eating disorders, to cure illnesses, to save the animals, to find community, and feel young again were drawn to 30 Bananas a Day!” Jacquline Alnes looks into the fringe fruit craze. | Lit Hub
- How radio brought the world (and a little entertainment) into American homes. | Lit Hub
- “Too much cash flying like loose leaves through marina bars and government wharves, and the fish piled in dead heaps in the mist…” Read “19 Knives,“ a story from Mark Anthony Jarman’s new collection, Burn Man. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The multiverse, in its most basic sense, is about our perpetual unhappiness.” Jonathan Russell Clark on falling out of love with the multiverse. | Esquire
- A dispatch from the 24-hour marathon Moby-Dick reading at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. | Slate
- “We don’t have access to essential truths about each other; and this question of equality is always a problem of belief.” Lillian Fishman explores the question of equality in love. | The Point
- Three months into a “livestreamed genocide,” Sarah Aziza considers the limits of bearing witness. | Jewish Currents
- Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello has won the TS Eliot prize. | The Guardian
