Lit Hub Daily: July 23, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 2001, Eudora Welty dies.
- On why we should all pay more attention to plants: “So much beauty, so much drama, so much wisdom we miss out on if we fail to connect with plants.” | Lit Hub Science
- “The first part of You Suck is known as The Old Testament.” Shalom Auslander considers the first story he ever learned. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Lev Grossman: “I wanted to know what happens to the people who have to keep on living after the end of the world.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, Noam Chomsky, and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Do animals deserve political rights and representation? Brandon Keim considers the human case for giving a voice to the voiceless. | Lit Hub Politics
- “You have been walking for a long time. You have been walking for no time at all. Something and its opposite can both be true.” Read from The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The closing of an American mind”: David B. Hobbs revisits E.E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room. | The Nation
- The literary scene is thriving in Ukraine, despite the destruction of one of the country’s largest book-printing plants by Russian missiles in May. | NPR
- More humility, fewer cutesy names: Rajiv Mohabir offers some advice for writing about whales. | Orion
- From Adrienne Rich to Allen Ginsberg, Carl Phillips considers the National Book Awards in poetry throughout the 1970s. | The Washington Post
- “Better a pig than a fascist.” On Hayao Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso, flight, and fascism. | Public Books
- What does classical music have in common with novels? “A musical reprise has an inherent doubleness, a simultaneous past and present. It functions as an index of time elapsed and distance travelled.” | Aeon
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