Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2019
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1902, Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Missouri.
- TV’s most literary show gets its rightful foul-mouthed send-off: Tyler Malone on the end of Deadwood. | Lit Hub
- All incarcerated people should have the right to read: Tyler Wetherall on what it meant to share books with her father while he was in prison. | Lit Hub
- “More than ever before, The Handmaid’s Tale seeks to tackle an impossibly knotted question—what makes somebody a mother?” Rachel Vorona Cote on season three in Gilead. | Lit Hub
- “The United States was founded as an asylum and a refuge: a sanctuary. This was a form of patriotism.” Jill Lepore on early American ideas of nationalism. | Lit Hub
- Book recommendations… from the cosmos! Read your (incredibly accurate) literary horoscope for June. | Lit Hub
- “Silent films reminded me of narrative lessons that I thought I’d already mastered.” Dominic Smith on the power of an obsolete art form. | Lit Hub
- How do we reclaim American cities for people who walk? Antonia Malchik runs out of sidewalk somewhere in Denver. | Lit Hub
- “If we ignore or bury history, we miss half of the clues that will solve the case.” Karen Lord on 6 works that explore small crimes within a larger landscape of injustice. | CrimeReads
- 5 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for June: featuring a school for mages, a sentient spaceship, and a gay Green Man tale. | Book Marks
- Nicole Dennis-Benn recommends five books about immigrants, from Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake to Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn. | Book Marks
- “My eternal scene takes place in a faraway country, the one in which I was born and of which I have no memory.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on his mother’s death, and eternity. | The New Yorker
- Are these the best literary magazines in the world right now? | Stack
- “The source is a very, very good one.” Michael Wolff defends his reporting of his new Trump tell-all, Siege. | NPR
- From Underland to Slime: a summer reading list for scientists. | Science
- “The inventions in the book are based on true, inspiring lives and they are worthy of literature with a capital L.” Ocean Vuong discusses his semi-autobiographical debut novel. | O
- “I want to help you, Megan. But you need to help yourself.” Megan Boyle and Megan Boyle in conversation. | The Believer
- Why you should read The Master and Margarita, in handy animated form. | Open Culture
Also on Lit Hub: The Cold War love story of a would-be travel writer/almost-spy • On the role of Black women in the struggle for suffrage • Read an excerpt from Kristen Arnett’s debut novel Mostly Dead Things.
