Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1871, Marcel Proust is born.
- “This was the authenticity I needed: for it to be okay to write this book, first, for myself as its primary audience.”Asha Thanki on literary gatekeeping and the trap of “authentic” writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- It’s finally here: our most anticipated books for the second half of 2024. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- When is being a teen girl like constructing a cyborg? Olivia Gatwood examines beauty standards in the age of artificial intelligence. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “We had some work to do, we Hoffmans, if we were going to fit in around here.” Steve Hoffman on what happens when an American family moves to the south of France. | Lit Hub Travel
- Stacey D’Erasmo considers how artists sustain their practices: “What keeps us alive in our art?” | Lit Hub Craft
- “I really wanted to shift that ridiculous narrative and, in doing so, tell the stories of these other women surrounding Plath, during her life and after, because they are fascinating.” Sarah Viren talks to Emily van Duyne about writing a new history of Sylvia Plath’s last years. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jan Carson on capturing the complexities (and failures) of Northern Ireland in fiction. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Just past six in the morning, there were hardly any pedestrians on the road that led to the swimming pool by the sea.” Read from Xi Xi’s novel Mourning a Breast, translated by Jennifer Feeley. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Does AI offer exciting new avenues for the publishing industry, or is it “the biggest rip-off in creative history”? | Esquire
- “Can a simple act of syntactical rearrangement really have such a profound effect on how we read and write about lives?” Isabella Stuart on Sheila Heti and the “I”. | Public Books
- Justin Taylor talks about his novel Reboot, fan culture, and celebrity. | Language Arts
- If romantasy isn’t your flavor of genre fiction, maybe you should try cozy fantasy instead. | Reactor
- Valerie Stivers makes Flannery O’Connor’s favorite dish: peppermint chiffon pie. | The Paris Review
- “Just around the time I was introduced to Natalie Merchant’s music…Mary Pipher’s book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (1994) made cultural waves as an exposition of girlhood and adolescence.” On Natalie Merchant and Hamlet’s Ophelia. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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