Lit Hub Daily: January 4, 2024

TODAY: In 1975, Carlo Levi dies at 72.

Here are the poetry books to watch out for in 2024: featuring Anne Carson, Danez Smith, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Arthur Sze, and more. | Lit Hub Poetry
Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, authenticity as pose, and not reading his book reviews. | Lit Hub
In praise of reading: how literature enables us to inhabit new worlds. | Lit Hub
Leona Godin on the enduring trope of the blind pencil vendor, and navigating an obsession with photography while being blind. | Lit Hub
“When we return, the house is silent. Nothing seems to be missing or damaged. No money has been taken.” Read an excerpt from Julie Myerson’s new novel, Nonfiction. | Lit Hub
“What Refaat asked of every one of us was to tell his tale. And his tale and those of others need to change this world, need to stop the genocide. It is not fiction. It is not poetry. It is his life.” Mosab Abu Toha remembers Refaat Alareer. | LARB
Terry Tempest Williams recommends books about the surprising state of Utah. | The New York Times
“The almanacs of the American Civil War capture a particular moment of instability within the national consciousness.” Jill Spivey Caddell considers the lessons of Civil War era almanacs. | JSTOR Daily
Some good news: An Iowa judge has blocked two key provisions of one of the state’s book-banning laws. | Publishers Weekly

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