Lit Hub Daily: July 26, 2022

• “How is our work circulated in a marketplace that struggles not just to see all of its writers as equals, but to pay them as equals?” Elaine Castillo reckons with the problems at the heart of publishing. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Are Saint Augustine’s Confessions the first example of a quarterlife crisis in Western literature? | Lit Hub Criticism

• Here are ten new books to help get you through the heat. | The Hub

• “I made a Grammar Table sign, adding to it what I thought were helpful discussion-inspiring suggestions, such as ‘capitalization complaints,’ ‘semicolonphobia,’ and ‘comma crisis.’” What happens when you offer grammar advice to strangers in the middle of Manhattan? | Lit Hub

• Book bans vs. boardrooms: on Pamela Paul’s false equivalencies. | The Hub

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• Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and founder of the modern sex novel. | Lit Hub Criticism

• How ISIS filled the power vacuum left by US forces in Iraq. | Lit Hub History

• Andrew Nette takes a look at ten underappreciated neo-noirs of the early 1970s. | CrimeReads

• “I felt the very strong effect of feminism. It hit me like a ton of bricks.” Mandy Sayer shares a 1989 interview with Helen Garner. | Public Books

• Cristina Pérez Díaz, editor of The Puerto Rico Review, writes about the work of four Puerto Rican poets and “literature reinscribing imagination onto the surface of reality.” | Words Without Borders

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• Casey Cep on the story behind Go Ask Alice, the controversial fake diary that became a publishing sensation. | The New Yorker

• “I still don’t know of any way to deal with rejection other than to take whatever lessons it provides and start planning the next attempt.” Nicole Chung offers advice on pitching. | The Atlantic

• Where do words come from? Livia Gershon highlights Barbara Wallraff’s thoughts on the subject. | JSTOR Daily

• Emily Kopley talks about the links between Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel Jacob’s Room and Shakespeare. | Oxford University Press Blog

• Read an interview with the late writer, activist, theorist, and self-described “neo-catastrophist” Mike Davis. | Los Angeles Times

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