Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2023
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1901, O. Henry is released from prison after serving three years for embezzlement.
- Poe vs. Himself: On Edgar Allan Poe’s one-sided war with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | Lit Hub Biography
- Literalizing the abstract, abstracting the literal: Greta Gerwig’s Barbieis a fascinating, spectacular philosophical experiment. | Lit Hub Film
- On the dreams of octopuses. | Lit Hub Animals
- Desire and destruction: On Patricia Highsmith and the horror—and revelation—of obsession. | Lit Hub
- How a patchwork of conflicting narratives created contemporary Eastern Europe. | Lit Hub History
- Efrén Ordóñez Garza is haunted by the question: What does it mean to “become” a writer. | Lit Hub
- Megan Mayhew Bergman considers the disappearance of safe places in the age of climate catastrophe. | The Atlantic
- Nicholas Dames on Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid, “already one of our young century’s landmarks of fiction.” | n+1
- Here’s why we should take “AI replacing novelists” off our long list of fears for the future. | Wired
- The dream: run a bookstore in Brooklyn, and live in the apartment above it. | The New York Times
- Read the first reviews of every Cormac McCarthy novel. | The Hub
- Adam Dalva remembers his brother.
