Lit Hub Daily: March 11, 2024
TODAY: In 1916, Ezra Jack Keats, author and illustrator best known for his children’s book The Snowy Day, is born.
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You might be cringe, but at least you’re free. Therese Oneill on how The Cherry Sisters personified “so bad it’s good.” | Lit Hub History
Article continues after advertisement - “Like archives, poems preserve. Unlike archives, poems, in preserving, also transform.” Armen Davoudian in conversation with Poets.org on immigration, enjambments, and how poems can make loss tangible. | Lit Hub Craft
- Can writers take something away while adapting their work for the screen? Sarah Tomlinson on the slow yet satisfying process of translating literature to cinema. | Lit Hub Film
- Oscar Wilde did call the United States a “nation of lunatics,” but you probably aren’t surprised. Rob Marland on the Irish writer’s tour of Gilded Age America. | Lit Hub Biography
- “What I know to be true, and what I often overlook, is that so much wisdom, so much virtue, and so many answers to my adult life’s big questions can be found in children’s books.” Mira Ptacin on motherhood, Jon J. Muth’s “The Three Questions,” and the value of learning to live moment to moment. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I feel less alone, less scared, working through threats with other people.” Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren talk about writing and climate change. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Wiley’s silky voice and jangling guitar rang clear in the bacon-scented hubbub of our kitchen, the station tuned to WKY in Oklahoma City.” Read from Virginia Miller Reeves’ new novel, Once in the Blue Moon. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Rae Armantrout, Brenda Hillman, and more remember Lyn Hejinian. | The Paris Review
- From book bans to laws targeting trans youth, state legislatures are waging war on public schools. | Jacobin
- Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, sons of Gabriel García Márquez, on the decision to publish their father’s novel posthumously against his wishes. | The Guardian
- The legacy of manga pioneer and Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, who has died at 68. | Polygon
- Are the sandworms of Dune actually worms? If they aren’t worms, would we still love them if they were? Science weighs in. | Slate
- “I was taken by these intersecting worlds between the characters and the way they all needed that companionship, but often ended up hurting each other as a result.” A conversation between graphic novelists ND Stevenson and Sara Varon. | Publishers Weekly
