Lit Hub Daily: June 6, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1799, Alexander Pushkin is born.
- “Within a few hours of the first scattered paratrooper reports, everyone across Normandy, citizen or soldier, could hear the unmistakable sounds that the invasion was under way.” Garrett M. Graff examines the first hours of D-Day on its 80th anniversary. | Lit Hub History
- Gina Frangello considers her personal history in relation to The Neapolitan Quartet: “To love Ferrante…was almost akin to a secret handshake in certain bookish, feminist circles.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Why don’t books have full credit pages like movies and TV? According to Maris Kreizman, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I understand now why I took so strongly to these stories.” Kyle Dillon Hertz on Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth. | Lit Hub Craft
- Catherine Gigante-Brown on reading Jane Kamensky’s biography of her friend, Candida Royalle: “Candice was feminist American history.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- What does Furiosa add to the Mad Max universe? Michael Krau examines the history and lore George Miller’s new film brings to the table. | Lit Hub Film
- “A woman can write as well as a man, but not if one of her hands is tied behind her back.” Claire Kilroy on the unpaid labor of motherhood and writing. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Anton Chekhov, Nick Rees Gardner, Joseph Osmundson, and more. Diana Arterian walks you through the books on Morgan Talty’s nightstand. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “This is a very smart book. I’m not sure that’s a compliment.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “Picture my Pop’s sneakers: worn-out and mud-caked from gardening, neatly positioned on the riverbank where the grass meets the sand.” Read from Essie Chambers’ new novel, Swift River. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s unlikely comic book collaboration. | Wired
- Why did Camus handwrite a copy of The Stranger two years after the novel’s publication? And why did it just sell for €650,000 at auction in Paris? | The Guardian
- “Perhaps formality… is simply a symptom of a writer seeing depth and gesturing toward it, but not really plumbing it, which would be messy, and uncertain, and risky.” Lucy Schiller considers linguistic expansion. | The Paris Review
- I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun is trying something different: writing a novel. | IndieWire
- “For six hours the police interrogated her about her academic articles and public statements she had made since October 7.” Palestinian students and academics in Israel are facing unprecedented penalties for speaking out. | New York Review of Books
- Cora Currier revisits Elsa Morante’s fiction and its feral, wayward children. | Lux
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