Lit Hub Daily: March 4, 2021
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY:In 1914, Barbara Newhall Follett, child prodigy novelist and author of The House Without Windows, which was published when she was twelve years old, is born. In December 1939, at age 25, Follett walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again.
- “Somewhere in there, it hit me: Instead of having a mind’s eye, I have a mind’s voice.” Alexandra Oliva on how to write a novel when you literally can’t visualize scenes. | Lit Hub Craft
- Leila Cobo follows the modern boom of Latin music, from Dámaso Pérez Prado to “Despacito.” | Lit Hub Music
- Chris Whitaker recommends six books with the best kid narrators, featuring Scout Finch and Angie Thomas’s Starr. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Beloved beasts, moral philosophy, and life on a hydroelectric dam: here are your climate readings for March. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “They transformed Charleston into a house-sized painting, a piece of art in its own right.” How Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant designed their domestic space—and their domestic roles. | Lit Hub Design
- Post-colonial noir, atmospheric thrillers, and a new Donna Leon: 10 crime novels you should read this March. | CrimeReads
- James Wood on Kazuo Ishiguro, Charles Yu on Stephen King, Christian Lorentzen on Philip Roth, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- Alexander Chee on recognizing pieces of himself in Minari. | Gen
- “In the end, a writer survives only if there’s wisdom in their work.” Vivian Gornick talks to Emily Gould. | Bookforum
- Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Jane Ciabattari on Namwali Serpell’s Stranger Faces. | Lit Hub
- Read a previously unpublished (New Yorker-rejected) poem about Superman… by Vladimir Nabokov. | Times Literary Supplement
- “The intimacy of translation is also a practice of close listening that passes, in different ways, through the body.” Heather Cleary on how a self-curated playlist helped with the translation of American Delirium. | Words Without Borders
- “I have always been intrigued and completely mystified by that moment in people’s lives when they leave a perfectly ordinary, ‘respectable’ life to cross the threshold into a deeply committed activism.” Cecile Pineda talks to Jeff Biggers about her new book, Entry Without Inspection, an “anti-memoir for our times.” | Lit Hub
- “Like Kamala Harris, I am a dougla.” Celeste Mohammed on Kamala Harris’s West Indian heritage and the history of the one-drop rule. | The Common
- “I started to wonder how on earth Lolita had managed to get published then without ever having to endure the indignity of prosecution.” On the legacy of Nabokov’s controversial classic. | The New York Times
- “For all the opening up of terrain, all of the reimagining that Hamilton did, the gender imaginary is extremely tight and familiar.” Catherine Provenzano on gender and musical storytelling. | Guernica
Also on Lit Hub: Ai Weiwei in conversation with Amale Andraos and Carol Becker • Sara Davis on dealing with chronic pain as a writer • Read from Gregory Brown’s debut novel, The Lowering Days
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