Lit Hub Daily: January 20, 2022

TODAY: In 1873, Danish author Johannes V. Jensen is born.   

• “It is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.” Read a 1950 essay by Zora Neale Hurston, “What White Publishers Won’t Print.” | Lit Hub

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• Julie Dobrow considers the love, legacy, and political implications of Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 1891 interracial marriage. | Lit Hub

• “For them, America at times has resembled a dystopia. But they won’t sit back and take it.” John Della Volpe on the monumental burden of Gen Z. | Lit Hub

• Give it a rest: On the necessity of recovery, in fitness and in writing. | Lit Hub

• “We always knew when there were tourist children nearby because the beach smelled weird, a hybrid of flowers and butter.” Lea Ypi on growing up in Communist Albania. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Dwight Garner on John Darnielle, Melissa Febos on Jeanette Winterson, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Olivia Rutigliano previews the best new crime shows out this year. | CrimeReads

• Remembering Ali Mitgutsch, who “delighted readers with vast, detailed, cartoonish tableaus.” | The New York Times

• These books explore the complex relationship between consciousness and the human body. | The Wall Street Journal

• A new exhibition explores the role of maps in classic works of literature. | The Guardian

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• “This is what got us through the COVID lockdown, my father in New York and me in Los Angeles, talking books over the telephone.” David Ulin on reading with his father. | Oldster

• Juana Adcock on translation and the language of capitalism. | Poets & Writers

• Dylan Byron on the paradoxes of E.M. Forster’s Maurice, “a deeply sad book built around a happy ending turned into an almost baroquely passionate film shot in self-consciously cool colors.” | Lapham’s Quarterly

• Rivka Galchen explores the history of the anti-vax movement. | London Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: Arnold Weinstein on literature’s “ethical and spiritual transformation” • Aanchal Saraf on Sort Of, queer feelings, and the company of others • Read from Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

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