Lit Hub Daily: January 22, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1953, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible opens on Broadway.
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Betty Shamieh considers her novel, Too Soon, alongside Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the next generation of Palestinian fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
Article continues after advertisement - “The state of orphanhood in and of itself is not what we want to see on television. Instead, we want to treat being orphaned as a precipitating event…” Kristen Martin examines superficial depictions of orphanhood on 90s television. | Lit Hub TV
- On Fady Joudah’s [. . .] and the inability of language to convey the horrors of genocide and erasure. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Matthew Nienow on stumbling back into poetic vulnerability: “I wrote into that darkness because that kind of honesty was the only thing that felt right.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Garth Risk Hallberg remembers the life and literary career of Mavis Gallant, master of the short form. | Lit Hub Biography
- Pagan Kennedy on how Martha Goddard helped develop the rape kit. | Lit Hub History
- “It was the summer of 1986 when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum—half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over her head. Larynx crushed.” Read from Cynthia Weiner’s novel, A Gorgeous Excitement. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Navied Mahdavian revisits The Plot Against America amidst… all this. | The New Yorker
- “Aphasia brings up existential questions that get at the heart of human connection: Who are we without language?” Charlotte Rogers considers writers and language loss. | Public Books
- Rachel Syme talks to Keziah Weir about reviving the lost art of letter writing. | Vanity Fair
- How do we differentiate between fiction and nonfiction? On perspective and truth. | Aeon
- “The trappings of power can launder some of the crudest personalities toward legitimacy, but this is a special cohort.” Jacob Silverman on the second Trump administration. | The Baffler
- Kelly Jensen reports on book censorship in an Idaho public library system. | Book Riot
