Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1877, Renée Vivien, a British poet who wrote in French, in the style of the Symbolistes and the Parnassiens, is born.
- Daniel José Older on PEN America, the weaponization of a word, and why “genocide is the single most important and urgent threat to free speech on this planet.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “A truth that requires dishonesty, illusion, art, is the most interesting kind.” Rufi Thorpe on gender, performativity, and the unreality of professional wrestling. | Lit Hub Sports
- Robert Pinsky, Porochista Khakpour, Rufi Thorpe, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Teddy Wayne asks Uchenna Awoke, Lauren Mechling, Iris Mwanza and more authors 7 questions (with no wrong answers). | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “The river, meanwhile, was too big to ever fully tame. That’s what made the river so entrancing to me.” Boyce Upholt on what the Mississippi River means to America. | Lit Hub History
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Robin Sloan about digital spaces, burrito cannons, and building an expansive sci-fi universe. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- D.S. Waldman considers the work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque in the context of disability. | Lit Hub Criticism
- What can Jane Austen’s work can tell us about the colonial legacy of the English countryside? A lot, if you pay attention. | Lit Hub History
- “Violet was the first sister to reach any level of fame. And it wasn’t just because she was the oldest.” Read from Porochista Khakpour’s new novel, Tehrangeles. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Annie Baker on turning her “world-building attention” to the big screen. | The New Yorker
- The story of Dennis Potter’s banned TV play, Brimstone and Treacle. | Jacobin
- Juno Richards on trans panic, trans femininity in history, and Jules Gill-Peterson’s A Short History of Trans Misogyny. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Clair Wang reports on the rise of indie bookstores with a social mission. | The New York Times
- Tara Isabella Burton, Sleep No More superfan, considers the immersive theater production’s legacy. | Slate
- Your right to print the word fart in a book is protected (for now). | The Guardian
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