Lit Hub Daily: July 30, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1818, Emily Brontë is born.
- Clara Bingham chronicles an oral history of the fight to include abortion rights in the Democratic Party’s platform at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. | Lit Hub History
- What does clown college have to do with writing? “Clown class was actually the ultimate terror—to be asked to fill the empty space in front of a crowd with no direction whatsoever and see what comes out.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Mai Sennaar asks, “Can historical fiction about Black global migration be… fun? Should it be? Is that responsible?” | Lit Hub Politics
- “Already in antiquity, a connection developed between Lesbos and subversive sexual practices.” Daisy Dunn on Sappho’s poetry and the modern use of the word “lesbian.” | Lit Hub History
- Willy Vlautin, Marianne Chan, Dinaw Mengestu, and more! These 20 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Laura Macdonald had gotten used to being naked, but this was a bit much.” Read from Sara Herchenroether’s novel, The Night Flowers. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, and more Irish novelists remember Edna O’Brien. | The Guardian
- Ross Barkan argues in defense of literary genius: “A great book is rarely written. No conglomerate superorganism can make it so—it’s up to that lone ranger, the author, digging in for long days and nights, groping toward beauty.” | Political Currents
- Where did your favorite authors stand on the Spanish Civil War, and what does that have to do with Rojava today? | 3:AM
- A depressing rundown of recent state and local book banning laws. | The New York Times
- “She’s smiling because this moment is capacious: everything’s possible.” Victor Lodato on his mother, gambling, and organized crime. | The New Yorker
- The Eisner Award winners have been announced. | Comic Con International
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