Lit Hub Daily: July 19, 2023
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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Colson Whitehead talks Blaxploitation cinema, Sidney Lumet, and the latest installment of his Harlem trilogy. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Earning their “person” pronouns: Animals don’t know what we call them, but language affects how we think about them. | Lit Hub Nature
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Exploring the “colorful and gruesome backstory” of C-sections. | Lit Hub Health
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Lillian Stone reflects on her complicated relationship with her Ozark roots: “I felt those menacing multitudes brewing deep in my pseudo-hillbilly heart, and I was terrified.” | Lit Hub Memoir
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Amanda Chemeche conversation with Alex Auder. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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“What does CVS stand for? No one seems to know. Everything you might want to buy there is now locked up, and you have to press what feels like a panic button to get access.” Rachel Kushner on the designed world. | Harper’s
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Simen Sætre considers the salmon barons populating Norwegian literature (translated by Siân Mackie). | The Dial
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Surprise! Ta-Nehisi Coates showed up at a school board meeting in South Carolina over banning his book. | The Daily Beast
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Colson Whitehead answers the Proust Questionnaire. | Vanity Fair
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“Anything you create that transcends time is in some ways more real than the actual reality of your life.” David Marchese interviews Joyce Carol Oates. | The New York Times Magazine
Also on Lit Hub: Why expertise has lost its luster • New poetry from Terrance Hayes • Read from Hila Blum’s newly translated novel, How to Love Your Daughter (tr. Daniella Zamir)
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