Lit Hub Daily: January 6, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1931, novelist, playwright, and short story writer E. L. Doctorow is born.
- “What happened millions of years ago unexpectedly set the stage for the warming world that we face today.” Lauren E. Oakes on ancient arboreal memories and our role in climate change. | Lit Hub Nature
- On creating a natural refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains: “The more I learned, the more I had to face that, in this job I’d volunteered myself for, total control was impossible.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Alex Cuadros explores patriarchy, exploitation, and the plight of Indigenous women in the Brazilian Amazon. | Lit Hub History
- “She looks through the mail lying on a tray by the front door. Sparse, quotidian.” Read from Anita Desai’s novel, Rosarita. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Livia Gershon considers the humor of fascists. | JSTOR Daily
- How romance readers rallied towards fighting book bans. | The Guardian
- Megan Craig examines the poetry of geology: “Oddly, perhaps, it is the late physician, neurologist, and author Oliver Sacks who offers the most poetic assessment of rocks.” | The American Scholar
- Greta Rainbow chronicles a year with Maya Man’s net art piece, “Glance Back.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Long-term relationships can be nightmares of manipulation, and inequalities within them can exact greater compromises from one partner than the other.” On two memoirs titled Consent. | New York Review of Books
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