Lit Hub Daily: June 28, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1503, Giovanni della Casa is born.
- “The lover was here and then was not. This is always the case.” Read Dawn Lundy Martin’s poem, “Instructions for the Lovers.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- What Julia Phillips learned about writing from fairy tales: “Close the circle—even if your characters suffer, your readers will remember it.” | Lit Hub Craft
- July brings new paperbacks from authors including Ann Beattie, Colin Channer, and Djuna. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “…readers shouldn’t avoid realities which make them feel uncomfortable.” Emily Usher writes in defense of the trauma narrative. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Morgan Talty, Nicola Yoon, Claire Kilroy, and more. These are June’s best audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Craving something new to watch? Look no further. Here’s the literary film and TV coming in July. | Lit Hub Film
- “A biographical narrative can take you only so far.” On indexing the life of Sylvia Plath. | Lit Hub Biography
- Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, Griffin Dunne’s The Friday Afternoon Club, Joseph O’Neill’s Godwin, Rachel Cusk’s Parade, and Ann Powers’ Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell all feature among June’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Mike De Socio on what we can learn from the fight for LGBTQ+ equality within the Boy Scouts of America. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Our work will not stop until we achieve a books industry free from the profits of fossil fuels and the arms industry.” Tom Jeffreys of Fossil Free Books on the Baillie Gifford boycotts and the necessity of sustainable, ethical sources of arts funding. | The Guardian
- A professional storyteller lays out the elements of a great campfire tale. | Atlas Obscura
- Sohrab Ahmari asks if the world will ever properly understand Foucault. | Compact Mag
- On James Fitzjames Stephen and reading against the text. | New York Review of Books
- “After an airstrike, you see exactly what you would imagine: the destruction of the human body.” Tobias Kirchwey interviews Dr. Ameera Qudieh, a physician in Gaza. | The Baffler
- Joe Karaganis asks what happens when we treat teaching like a collective project. | Public Books
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