Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1928, Sylvia Beach hosts a dinner party so that F. Scott Fitzgerald can meet James Joyce.
- Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the place of the confessional narrative in the literary landscape. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I took my fear over the future, my experiences with dissociation, and my diagnoses, and told Norma to deal with them in her fictional world.” Alana Saab considers the catharsis of autofiction during a mental breakdown. | Lit Hub Craft
- Audrea Lim on the fight for equitable land distribution in Minnesota: “Even as Minneapolis cautiously backpedaled on defund, I could see that reparations was nevertheless gaining traction in some corners of American society.” | Lit Hub Politics
- What shouldn’t you let your cat do? Veterinarian Dr. Amy Attas offers some obvious advice to oblivious pet owners. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Neither Cunard nor Aldington knew the name, but they realized four or five lines in that they had a poem possessed of a strange, abrasive vitality.” Adam Smyth on how Nancy Cunard and a small press poetry contest launched Samuel Beckett’s career. | Lit Hub History
- Oren Kroll-Zeldin on Jewish identity, community myths, and unlearning Zionism: “The sheer inability to see or recognize the human suffering on the other side of the border was deeply troubling to me and was a point of rupture.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- “And how can we design technology with the communities we aim to serve rather than pushing ready-made Silicon Valley tech that’s wildly out of touch?” Jean-Martin Bauer on the use of technology to resolve global hunger and food insecurity. | Lit Hub Technology
- “In anticipation of yoga she is instantly more careful in her movements, stripping swiftly and putting on a vest and her pyjama bottoms, bringing her rolled mat and laying it precisely square on the floor.” Read from Rosalind Brown’s novel, Practice. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Casey Cep considers two recent books that “wrestle with less familiar aspects of [Harriet] Tubman’s legacy.” | The New Yorker
- “They’ve devised a language that responds to the new and distinct reality they face.” Stephen Marche on Gen Z’s revealing slang. | The New York Times
- “It is both a gift and a curse to be handed a briefcase containing a life’s work.” When Richard Kelly Remnick tried to finish a dead man’s novel. | The Walrus
- Mike Watson argues in defense of the Frankfurt School: “Adorno and Marcuse may have had differing solutions to the challenges of modernity, yet they each prefigured the cultural malaise of our digital age.” | Jacobin
- Elizabeth Fetterolf interviews author and sociologist Allison Pugh about, well, interviewing. | Public Books
- Srikanth Reddy considers literary wonder. | The Paris Review
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