Lit Hub Daily: July 13, 2023

TODAY: In 2014, South African writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies at 90.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re worthy of doing it. It matters that it’s worthy of doing.” Amy Rowland on writing about rural America. | Lit Hub
On Marianne Faithfull, one of the women behind The Rolling Stones: “In a sea of uniformity and fluff, Marianne was an intellectual misfit, lugging around copies of Tolstoy and the complete works of Shakespeare.” | Lit Hub Music
How 9/11 led to the lost world of New York City nightlife. | Lit Hub History
Daniel Hornsby recommends eight books that map uncanny worlds. | Lit Hub
Amita Murray on Queen Charlotte, Bridgerton, and navigating the Regency romance genre as a brown writer of South Asian descent. | Lit Hub
“Most of us don’t mind literary grave robbing, especially when it comes to authors we love.” 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
“I studied Martinez, first as a baseball player and then, eventually, as an artist—I close-read him as you would a Modernist author.” Will Harrison on his unlikely writing teacher. | The New York Times Magazine
In which Kyle Chayka attempts to replace himself with a robot. | The New Yorker
“Human curation is more essential now than ever as a way to fight the algorithmic selection of writing. That’s what magazines can do.” An interview with Cathy Park Hong. | The Drift
Jon Klassen talks to Kathleen Yale about collaboration, constructing a setup, and revenge. | Orion

Also on Lit Hub: When your life starts to resemble your novel • Ten books that slouch toward the total pain of desire • Read from Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s newly translated novel, The Country of Toó (tr. Stephen Henighan)

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