Lit Hub Daily: January 18, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1989, English travel writer, novelist, and journalist, Bruce Chatwin, whose first book In Patagonia was published in 1977, dies.
- Maris Kreizman wonders why this coming March is the best month in years for new books. | Lit Hub
- “I tell myself that the brain injury did not take away a self, rather it revealed many other selves heretofore unknown to me.” Annie Liontas on life after concussion. | Lit Hub
- “The Origins of Totalitarianism reads like a good novel because it reveals to the reader some experience that they already know, but thanks to its pages can now understand.” Why we should all be reading Hannah Arendt. | Lit Hub
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Why I write gay: How Eric Schlich channels his bisexuality through queer protagonists. | Lit Hub
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Susan Muaddi Darraj on finding inspiration in the lives of ordinary Palestinians. | Lit Hub
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Lightning and land ablaze: Manjula Martin on the primal terror of living in wildfire country. | Lit Hub
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“Walter Benjamin stares at the sea and wishes he had something better to do.” Read “Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,” a story by C.D. Rose. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “That the natural world could have an existence of its own, without our intervention, perspective, or even notice, that we ourselves might not be the central players in the drama of life—what could cause more existential dread?” Colin Dickey on the eerieness of lake monsters. | Atlas Obscura
- Jael Goldfine considers the slow death of feminist media. | Study Hall
- “You can’t change the laws of physics. You can, however, change the rules of the economic game.” Nick Romeo on Tolstoy’s approach to economics. | The New Yorker
- Kelly Boutsalis explores her relationship to land acknowledgements, and to the land. | Hazlitt
- “I have only recently been made aware of Oliver’s work, but I feel that her thinking somehow influenced mine.” Tayari Jones on the stories of Diane Oliver. | The Paris Review
