Lit Hub Daily: January 24, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
- “There’s something genuinely life changing about seeing aspects of your imagination take physical form.” Megan Hunter on the experience of bringing a novel to the big screen. | Lit Hub
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The fine art of re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on throwing away half her book while writing it. | Lit Hub Craft
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Of unborn ghosts and ancestral murder: Brian Klaas on trying to celebrate the chaos that led to us. | Lit Hub
- “Tomorrow or the day after, I’ll / pack my things and off to hell. / Another visit to Palestine.” Read “Holy Land, Wasted,” a poem by Ahmad Almallah and Huda Fakhreddine, after TS Eliot. | Lit Hub
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So fetch, so fierce: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong in praise of all the literary mean girls. | Lit Hub
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How doctors treated diabetes before insulin therapy: Gary Taubes on the history of diet-based remedies for chronic illness. | Lit Hub
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“Sister, for you I’ve made a world within this poem’s mouth…” New poetry by Ae Hee Lee. | Lit Hub
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“The woman searching for her child wakes up in the morning sunburnt and sits up in the sand.” Read from Balsam Karam’s new novel The Singularity, translated by Saskia Vogel. | Lit Hub Fiction
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Today in the darkest timeline: The creator of Libs of TikTok is now an advisor for Oklahoma school libraries. | The Daily Beast
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Notes from the Gathering of the Ghosts, a ghostwriting conference. | The New York Times
- “I thought: I don’t want other people seeing my face—the shame began to rise inside me, from the tips of my fingers to the nape of my neck, like a warm, paralyzing fluid, I recognized its burn.” Read an excerpt from Édouard Louis’ forthcoming book, Change. | The Paris Review
- Margot Robbie and her stylist are releasing a book of her Barbie looks with Rizzoli. | Complex
- Anna Wiener considers the office memoir canon. | The New Yorker
