Lit Hub Daily: March 25, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford for publishing The Necessity of Atheism.
- “Its name is vection: an illusory self-motion in the absence of any actual bodily movement in space.” On what train travel and reading fiction have in common. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Steven W. Thrasher on the social media project humanizing Palestinians killed by Israel, one person at a time. | Lit Hub Politics
- Alex Trimble Young remembers the late Stanley Crawford. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Alvina Chamberland on why she chose to be the cover model for her own novel: “I want to take up as much space as possible, both body and soul.” | Lit Hub Photography
- What does it mean to write after death? Joyelle McSweeney explores the creative process that grief provokes. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I am not writing alone. I am writing with witches—those who have gone before, those who are brewing, and those who will rise.” Intan Paramaditha on rethinking literary influences. | Lit Hub Craft
- Anna Smaill considers the liminality of the fictional store and encourages you to read between the aisles. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “It happened that green and crazy summer when I was thirteen years old. A stolen first line, slightly altered, because I’m not much of a writer, but I have been something of a thief.” Read from Griffin Hansbury’s new novel, Some Strange Music Draws Me In. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I followed Lorca’s contrails south and found that his New York had been demolished and substituted.” On searching for Federico García Lorca in contemporary New York. | The Paris Review
- Giri Nathan interviews Hanif Abdurraqib about writing, basketball, and buying flowers on the weekends. | Vulture
- On unions, solidarity, and the work of Herb Mills: “In 1984, his local boycotted a ship bound for apartheid South Africa for ten days.” | Jacobin
- “In some ways, the novel is indicative of my changing relationship with the folk tale.” Irene Connelly interviews Téa Obreht. | Electric Literature
- Remembering science fiction writer Vernor Vinge. | Reactor
- “History cannot contain our story. It never could.” Jason Allen-Paisant on translating Aimé Césaire and how poetry reaches beyond history. | Words Without Borders
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