Lit Hub Daily: March 15, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 44BC, Julius Caesar is assassinated. This event would become the premise of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar.
- “Interior design’s aim is to make reading easy. It creates order out of chaos and bestows authority (warranted or not) on an author’s words.” On book design beyond the cover. | Lit Hub Art
- The accidental icon Lyn Slater on style, rebellion, and aging with attitude. | Lit Hub Memoir
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What do Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale have in common? Melissa Pritchard explores the parallel lives of the Russian literary giant and the founder of modern nursing. | Lit Hub History
Article continues after advertisement - Corey Sobel on Willa Cather and using physical details in service to emotional ends. | Lit Hub Craft
- “In learning about Frances Perkins, and writing about her, I became aware of many more women who changed the modern world.” Stephanie Dray recommends Kate Quinn, Stephanie Thornton, Vanessa Riley, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Marilynne Robinson on Abraham and Isaac, and the narrative underpinnings of the book of Genesis. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Katya Apekina sits down with Melissa Ximena Golebiowski: “I wanted to play with time in this weird way, like a record scratch type of thing where you just suddenly skip ahead.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses, and Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations all feature among the Best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “It was a crisp evening in Angel. The kind where the sky is that deep, dark blue, clear and limitless. The kind you never get. The kind where anything is possible.” Read from Phoebe McIntosh’s new novel, Dominoes. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Molly Templeton on book hoarding, death cleaning, and aspiration. | Reactor
- “The revolution will be caring.” Speculative fiction, the future of care, and books by Nicolas Delalande, Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, and M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi. | Public Books
- “I wrote a note in my phone that said: have u ever watched a really famous person being interviewed b4? its rlly weird lol.” Sophie Kemp on experiencing high fashion. | The Paris Review
- Unsurprising, still depressing: Book bans in US schools and libraries reached record highs last year. | The Guardian
- “There was something refreshing about a text that didn’t need to be perfect, that came from a place of urgency.” Jillian Steinhauer on the power of The Artist’s Way. | The New York Times Magazine
- Chloë Sevigny on books, Capote, and more. | Vulture
