Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892, Djuna Barnes is born.
- What if Jane Austen is actually the master of anti-romance? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on how Austen’s rushed endings undercut her reputation. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Living with a literary icon can teach some incredible lessons. Cory Leadbeater on his life-changing friendship with Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I had my father looking up the definition for ‘necrophiliac’ just from the jacket copy.” Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Puloma Ghosh discuss translating grief into literary horror. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Clare Pooley considers why in literature, a dead dog might also kill a book: “My strong advice to all authors is to think long and hard before killing a furry friend and, if you do decide to go ahead, be prepared.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Can’t figure out what book to bring to the beach? The ultimate summer reading list is here. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I discovered something different through the trauma. We learn to grieve by grieving.” Tomas Moniz on trauma, healing and houseplants. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Elisa Gabbert on poetry and essay: “I think in some ways, for me, both writing and reading are essentially acts of communion.” | Lit Hub Craft
Article continues after advertisement - What’s in a butterfly? Alan Townsend on what science can reveal about our own fragile self-conceptions. | Lit Hub Science
- “In a courtyard behind the hospital, with cold metal benches and leafless trees strangled by Christmas lights, Eva came upon a doctor smoking a cigarette.” Read from Clare Sestanovich’s new novel, Ask Me Again.| Lit Hub Fiction
- How Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize became associated genocide. | The Walrus
- Leah Schnelbach interviews three finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. | Reactor
- “Pokémon is all about reading. Hard and soft.” Joseph Earl Thomas on Pokémon. | The Paris Review
- On professional wrestling, American politics, and Josephine Riesman’s Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America. | Public Books
- Christine Smallwood considers the material constraints of writing criticism today. | The Yale Review
- “Instead, the literary community and the political right today appear to have agreed on something like an abortion-plot amnesia…” On abortion, motherhood, and Kay Carter’s 1935 novel, Affair. | The Point
