Lit Hub Daily: March 26, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1874 , Robert Frost is born.
- “There has been one single experience that taught me more about storytelling than anything else in my life: telling bedtime stories to my children.” Mark Cecil on what he’s learned from the toughest audience there is. | Lit Hub Craft
- Shilpi Somaya Gowda recommends novels with rotating perspectives by Barbara Kingsolver, Celeste Ng, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- When the ancient Greeks were Irish: Ferdia Lennon considers the role of speech and dialect in bringing the distant past to life. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “While anti-natalism is thus relentlessly pessimistic about ‘life,’ it is eerily silent about the profit system responsible for specific kinds of life-making.” Ben Ware on the problems with anti-natalism and the emptiness of opting out. | Lit Hub History
- Ursula Villarreal-Moura, Alexandra Tanner, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, and more. These 23 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What happens when physicists fail? Harry Cliff on the slippery nature of probability in the pursuit of scientific discovery. | Lit Hub Science
- “In the physician’s house there are many jars, glass jars of all sizes, lining the walls of his workroom.” Read from Garrard Conley’s new novel, All the World Beside. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Remembering Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who has died at 98. | The Guardian
- “But I own the curse and glory of English, a language that has eaten up so many other cultures and become a conglomerate of gorgeous, seedy, supernal, rich, evocative words.” Sterling HolyWhiteMountain interviews Louise Erdrich. | The Paris Review
- On Hmong American poetry: “The loss felt by Hmong Americans who became refugees at a young age and who continue to relive the experience through their parents’ memories echoes through the lines.” | JSTOR Daily
- Sarah Weinman reflects on Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis, and the understandable desire to protect your own narrative in the face of illness. | The Cut
- “‘Human beings are inherently corrupt,’ Nguyen says. But he also believes that we are equally capable of redemption.” Mari Uyehara profiles Viet Thanh Nguyen. | The Nation
- “To the audience, the finished comic should be understandable from an emotional perspective, even if they can’t quite put their finger on what that emotion is or how it’s been delivered.” An interview with Gareth A. Hopkins. | The Comics Journal
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