Lit Hub Daily: June 7, 2018
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1967, Dorothy Parker dies.
- Aminatta Forna digs into the truth about fiction vs. nonfiction. | Lit Hub
- How Prince helped me finally feel seen: James Tate Hill on the multifarious legacy of an American icon. | Lit Hub
- For Adrienne Celt, moving from her beloved apartment to a new home was like going through a bad break-up. So she drew about it. | Lit Hub
- Maria Hummell on Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi’s feminist rage (and surprisingly accurate blood spatter). | CrimeReads
- “How would a parable read if it expressed the fantasy that one simple man might swoop in and make order out of the chaos and stupidity of the world?” A short story by Helen DeWitt. | Electric Literature
- Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire has been awarded the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction · Anne Garreta’s Not One Day (along with the book’s translator, Emma Ramadan) has won the 2nd-annual Albertine Prize. | The Guardian, The New York Times
- “I didn’t want to write a book that leaned into the facts. I wanted to make the language itself part of what helped keep a person reading.” Rising author Elizabeth Rush on finding a new way to write about climate change. | Longreads
- Emily Heiden visits an abortion clinic that wasn’t. | Lit Hub
- Books Not Bombs: how libraries, whose stacks supposedly “offered excellent radiation shielding,” prepared during the Cold War. | JSTOR
- “I will lop off whole halves of poems.” Poet Victoria Chang is very serious about revision. | Guernica
- On migrant life in the borderlands, from Mexico to Hungary. | Lit Hub
- Daniel Radcliffe, Bobby Cannavale, and Cherry Jones will star in the Broadway adaptation of The Lifespan of a Fact. | Vulture
- Chris Ware on Nick Drnaso, Ron Charles on the James Patterson-Bill Clinton thriller, and more: 5 book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- “Both the idea of the stage lights growing dimmer, and the author asking the reader to hurry, make perfect sense. Which to choose? As always: both.” A diary of translation by Emma Ramadan. | The Quarterly Conversation
Also on Literary Hub: Language as nation: On being a translator of Catalan · Salman Rushdie on his sister’s culinary genius: Sameen Rushdie’s home cooking comes to America · New fiction by Giordano Miacci from the latest issue of The Florentine Review
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