Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1917, French feminist writer Christiane Rochefort is born.
- Minsoo Kang on J.R.R. Tolkien and how the tools of fantasy and speculative fiction can help immigrant writers. | Lit Hub Craft
- Brittany Allen asks, what’s the Millennial midlife crisis novel? On aphoristic prose and women on the edge. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Jeffrey Eugenides and Yiyun Li speak about Colm Tóibín on the occasion of his National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Achievement in Literature. | Lit Hub
- How did phrenology get so popular, anyway? “Combe’s great advantage was in promoting a scientific discipline in which ordinary people could participate.” | Lit Hub History
- “I heeded the gothic lesson of exploration and followed my own heart down into the spiral of my past.” Alisa Alering on how gothic romance helped ease small town loneliness. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The ginkgo is a living fossil, which is to say that it has continued to flourish, largely unchanged.” Amy Stewart talks to Jimmy Shen in praise of the ginkgo tree. | Lit Hub Nature
- “I was in the hospital for five days. I thought of myself as a young person having an old person’s operation.” Read from Katherine Brabon’s novel, Body Friend. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Laura Miller asks, “Was Hillbilly Elegy ever good, or did J.D. Vance snow us?” | Slate
- Callum Bains on how to decide when to put a book down and the relief of choosing. | The Guardian
- “I do consider myself a writer. But hopefully I’ll be a better writer five years from now. I approach writing by trying to find my own love for it.” A conversation with Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter. | Public Books
- Shy Watson talks to Emma Copley Eisenberg about framing devices, Berenice Abbott’s photographs, and “putting my body in the thing that’s going to give me insight.” | The Creative Independent
- San Francisco’s Fabulosa Books is shipping queer books to conservative states, for free. | Los Angeles Times
- “They didn’t call themselves painters; they called themselves writers. Broadcasting your adopted name, however gnomic or illegible to those unschooled in the stylistics of graffiti, was a language act.” Jonathan Lethem on the museums and graffiti of his childhood. | Harper’s
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