Lit Hub Daily: March 4, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: Barbara Newhall Follett, the child prodigy novelist who disappeared in 1939, was born in 1914.
- “A film based on a significant literary work hasn’t taken home an Academy Award in over 10 years.” Ryan Coleman’s here with your literary guide to The Oscars. | Lit Hub Film
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Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman chronicle a hidden fraternity of the forsaken in the American West. | Lit Hub Photography
- Voting is a broken process for The Oscars. Ismar Volić makes the case for why we need to abandon winner-take-all voting. | Lit Hub Film
- Liesl Schwabe revisits the work of Diane di Prima: “Now, I see her work as far more radical for the consistent and reassuring love she had for herself and her own presence.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Michele Herman considers the challenges of getting your book on a store shelf and what happens when indie publishers and corporate booksellers collide. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections by Don Mee Choi, Michael Ondaatje, Mary Gilliland, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The first time Paul called, Zhenia was lying in bed, looking at the succulents on the windowsill. They were furry with dust. How long had it been since anybody watered them?” Read from Katya Apekina’s new novel, Mother Doll. | Lit Hub Fiction
- A guide to getting into the Dune-iverse, whose “entry points are numerous.” | Esquire
- “I thought: oh my God, they’re going to try and make a movie out of that?” Mary Harron on adapting American Psycho. | London Review of Books
- Lawmakers in Georgia are seeking to sever ties with the American Library Association. | NPR
- How Maxwell Tani became the go-to reporter for news about media layoffs, and what journalism might look like in the future. | Slate
- Gabriel Smith made the internet believe Charli XCX named an album after his book. He’s not the only writer to pull a similar stunt. | The Guardian
- “It feels good and calming being able to reuse seemingly worthless scrap to build something beautiful.” On artist Tomas Mayer’s miniature libraries. | Colossal
