Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1947, William Maxwell Evarts “Max” Perkins, the book editor best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies.
- “I read voraciously, but I never saw myself in the books I loved so much.” Michael Leali imagines a world where queer kids have access to books that celebrate their identities. | Lit Hub Politics
- Francine Prose on the unfinished sexual revolution of the 1970s: “We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.” | Lit Hub History
- Layal Liverpool examines racist beauty standards, the hidden harms of hair relaxers, and Black women’s health. | Lit Hub Health
- Maggie Nye Recommends Mónica Ojeda, Megan Abbott, Dizz Tate, and more books that explore female friendship in adolescence. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I want the novel to open up a hole in this world and lead somewhere else.” On why your novel needs an origin story. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Over the years, as you talk to people who’ve read your work, you realize they’re not reading the book you wrote.” Michelle Hart talks to Jill Ciment about autobiography and the act of revisiting the past. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Ann Powers on how Joni Mitchell pioneered her own form of artistic genius. | Lit Hub Music
- “The first thing Jasmyn notices about the older Black woman on her front doorstep is that her hair is relaxed. Not natural.” Read from Nicola Yoon’s new novel, One of Our Kind. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Nikole Hannah-Jones about The 1619 Project, five years on, and creating new spaces for Black creativity. | Harper’s Bazaar
- “I am pleased to see the dinner party as an occasion to intensify dissent rather than merely react to it.” Sarah Miller on the pleasures of fighting at dinner parties. | The Paris Review
- “Newsfluencer” Phil Lewis thinks that journalism will survive the internet. | Wired
- “Anger’s ability to craft stories by way of their proximity to the truth, rather than a concern for accuracy, is an exercise that, in this case, played on the vanities of a small biker gang.” Revisiting Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Graphic novelist Derf Backderf on campus policing and creating unsanitized work. | The Comics Journal
- Roxane Gay and Deb Olin Unferth are among several writers who have lent their voices to an AI-powered literary study guide. | The New York Times
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