Lit Hub Daily: June 27, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892, Pearl S. Buck is born.
- Warsan Shire, Ann Patchett, Melissa Mogollon, and more. Diana Arterian on what Tara M. Stringfellow is reading now and next. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Akwaeke Emezi doesn’t outline books. What else don’t you know about them? Read their Lit Hub questionnaire to find out. | Lit Hub Craft
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Cats, dirt, and frames within frames: These are the best book covers of June. | Lit Hub Design
- Alexis Gunderson takes you behind the scenes on the set of My Lady Jane: “Think less Wolf Hall and more Blackadder; less Mary Queen of Scots and more The Princess Bride.” | Lit Hub TV
- “It offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Are you the literary asshole for wanting to tell people their writing sucks? Kristen Arnett answers this awkward question and more. | Lit Hub Craft
- “One thing seems right no matter what your actual goals are or come to be: it is good to start asking the important questions early.” Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman on having kids and family life in the 21st century. | Lit Hub Health
- Kent Wascom recommends Robin McLean, Charles Wilkinson Webber, Anna Burns, and more Neo-Western reads. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Remember when Benjamin Franklin jumped naked into the Thames? No? You’re about to. Vicki Valosik on our millennia long love-hate relationship with getting in the water. | Lit Hub History
- “On the outskirts of the city, I found a truck stop and an A&W. I parked the truck as far away as I could get from the glaring neon sign that lit up the parking lot.” Read from Conor Kerr’s novel, Prairie Edge. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On two Uyghur memoirs, diaspora, and activism: “Whether formally detained or not, Turkic and Muslim people in Xinjiang remain trapped within a mesh of surveillance and threat.” | The Dial
- “For Strachey and Turing, writing love letters was arguably a starry-eyed benchmark of intelligence.” How Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey queered early computing. | JSTOR Daily
- “She said she knew nothing about the previous resident Joseph Cornell, other than that he’d existed…” Eliza Barry Callahan on the place Joseph Cornell called home. | The Paris Review
- Kali Wallace considers Susan Sontag, science fiction, and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. | Reactor
- Sebastián Sanchez talks to Steven Monte about the ambitious work of translating 16th century epic poem Orlando Furioso. | Asymptote
- Ian Bogost laments the decline of the instruction manual. | The Atlantic
