Lit Hub Daily: January 27, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1897, English poet Iris Tree is born.
- “I’m an ex-goth, and young goths do a lot of true crime.” John Darnielle talks to Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review. | Lit Hub Radio
- In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first Paris edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, behold these incredible illustrations (some stately, some plump) by Eduardo Arroyo. | Lit Hub
- Is The Lost Daughter adaptation actually a horror movie? | Lit Hub Film & TV
- “Mass-produced clothes promised to make elite fashion available to an underclass who could never before have afforded it.” A brief history of the American clothing industry. | Lit Hub History
- Translator Laura McGloughlin has eight very good reasons you should be reading more Catalan literature in translation. | Lit Hub Translation
- Michael Bazzett investigates why we need to revisit old myths to create new ones. | Lit Hub
- Eliza Jane Brazier recommends nine books that pit the haves against the have-nots. | CrimeReads
- Gawker on Fuccboi, Colm Tóibín on John McGahern’s letters, Tayari Jones on Imani Perry’s southern travelogue, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- A highly anticipated cookbook has been delayed because all the copies of it (probably) sank to the bottom of the sea. | Grub Street
- “Above all, an artist needs to learn to think in the medium they are working in. Whatever that is.” Lincoln Michel on why a fiction writer must be a fiction reader. | Countercraft
- Cindy Fazzi examines the classic literature she loved as a child in the Philippines through the lens of cultural appropriation. | Electric Literature
- “I’m less interested in the volume of work than in doing work I really find value in. Which is very different than operating under the clock of capitalism.” Bryan Washington discusses care and craft. | The Atlantic
- New research shows that British teachers of English want a more diverse syllabus. | The Guardian
- Mieko Anders on the way Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch leads “viewers to question what else might have been omitted from the narratives they’ve received, whether in the film or otherwise.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Grace Lapointe considers whether predictions from sci-fi novels of the past came true. | Book Riot
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