Lit Hub Daily: July 25, 2024

TODAY: In 1966, Frank O’Hara dies from injuries sustained after he was struck by a dune buggy at Fire Island beach the day before.

Am I the literary asshole if I’m jealous of my friend’s success as a writer? Kristen Arnett answers this and other awkward questions. | Lit Hub Craft
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“There is no greater vindication of the suspicion that poor taste is a form of moral deficiency than the initial reception that greeted Hillbilly Elegy.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Jean Marc Ah-Sen recommends fiction by Paige Cooper, Allegra Hyde, César Aira, and more about VBMs (Very Bad Mentors). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Diana Arterian on what Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is reading now and next, including books by Cristina Beltrán, Judith Butler, John Capgrave, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
“Poetry has been our only consolation. By which I mean we’re not as alone as we think we are.” Peter Mishler and Dara Barrois/Dixon discuss the mysterious power of poetry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“How had I, an American college girl, arrived at a mountain precipice in the remotest hinterlands of Italy, in this village ‘forgotten by God and by man’?” Read from Juliet Grames’ new novel, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia. | Lit Hub Fiction
Maddy Myers on setting George R. R. Martin free. | Polygon
Robert Ito explores the collapse of the Romance Writers of America. | The New York Times
“Doing away with our library would be an injustice to our students… Let’s not give up on reading yet.” High school student Jeannine Chiang on the disappointing rebrand of her school’s library. | The Nation
Cynthia Rose takes you inside a new comic arts exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. | The Comics Journal
Cher turns back time with a memoir on the horizon. | The Los Angeles Times
Apparently, a lot of books are poisonous. Like, a lot of them. | The Washington Post

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