Lit Hub Daily: March 1, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: Ralph Ellison is born in 1914.
- “These stories breathed with lungs that the ones sitting in the gymnasium didn’t have. They pulsed, beating like a drum.” Melissa Blair on writing the anti-colonial fantasy she always wanted as a child. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “What sets Taffa’s memoir apart is its study of the political, racial and ancestral forces that shape a life.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Catherine Lacey, Eleanor Catton, and that’s just the beginning. These titles are out in paperback this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- If it feels like there’s nothing new left for you to stream, don’t worry. Here’s a selection of the literary film and TV coming to streaming in March. | Lit Hub Film
- “On the bus ride home, I thought about what ‘challenges’ I had faced in my life. It was an odd exercise.” Read from Andrew Boryga’s new novel, Victim. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Architects Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti in conversation with Julien Crockett about sensible cities and hybrid physical and digital spaces. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Such a collective practice eschews competitiveness to ‘make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all acts of criticism.’” On the language of women’s land, and its evolution. | Public Books
- What happens when we run out of land? Here are five solutions from science fiction. | Reactor
- On Dune and building fictional languages for literature. | The New Yorker
- Colin Ainsworth visits Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new Waco hotel to check in on Larry McMurtry’s library. | The Paris Review
- “I felt I was smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual.” Amitava Kumar on writing a novel with pictures. | Hazlitt
