Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1935 Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the Japanese manga artist widely credited with founding the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, is born.
- “I’m a believer in the intersection between the mundane and the sacred.” A conversation with poet Alan Felsenthal. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Ed Simon on Charles Fort and the porous, ever-shifting boundaries between science and speculation. | Lit Hub Science
- What should poets read more of? According to Elaina Ellis, the answer is romance fiction: “Like any social construct, genre can be a site of creativity and invention.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- “My family talked about race at home, in the sense of being aware of what it is to be a Black person in this country, but we didn’t talk about it a lot.” Katrina M. Powell explores what it means to grow up Black in Appalachia. | Lit Hub History
- What happened with Britain’s forgotten pandemic? Scott Preston on what we failed to learn from the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I’m not proud of this, but rarely are we proud of the things we do and think when we are anyone but who we are, when desire and performance are running the show.” Mac Crane on basketball, performing femininity, and whiteness. | Lit Hub Sports
- Carrie Courogen on elusive comedy legend Elaine May and balancing the demands of biography with a fan’s enthusiasm. | Lit Hub Biography
- “Budapest in flames. New York crumbling into the sea. Los Angeles in ruins. The Soviets had rushed in with weapons but were not shooting.” Read from Patrick Nathan’s new novel, The Future Was Color. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “When I find depictions of people with larger bodies in fiction, the portrayals are nearly always pejorative, jeering, or demeaning.” Emma Copley Eisenberg on fatness in American novels. | The New Republic
- The hot new trend in European bookstores is… English language books. | The New York Times
- On Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Person from Porlock, and being fascinated by interruptions. | The Paris Review
- “I really wanted to…show all of the different subjective forces and individual people, with their own host of biases and flaws, that came together to first create these sex-testing policies in 1936.” Michael Waters on fascism, gender, and the making of the modern Olympics. | The Baffler
- “Niger now joins Mali and Burkina Faso in a rejection line of former French colonies in West Africa. Once an indispensable partner, France is now disposable.” On two books about French colonization. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- As publishers cut back, is it up to authors to promote their own books? “For authors, looking beyond your publisher for help promoting your work often comes at a steep cost.” | The Guardian
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