Lit Hub Daily: March 7, 2024

TODAY: In 1936, French novelist and Oulipo member Georges Perec is born.

“This time I got everything wrong again. \ The tree: it was red. And the sky was gray. / Tomorrow ran off with today today.” Read “Rowan Tree,” a poem from Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ new collection, Silver. | Lit Hub Poetry

Frank O’Hara, Evie Shockley, Monica Rico, and more. Here’s your annotated guide to what Diane Seuss is reading now and next. | Lit Hub Criticism
Linda Troeller and Darcey Steinke consider aging and the liberatory potential of the self-portrait: “In many of these recent pictures, sexuality is split off from fertility, motherhood, youth, and their traditional demarcations.” | Lit Hub Photography
“A striver high on his own supply who tries to spin his story as empathetic wisdom draped in Instagram-ready captions.” Saeed Jones on RuPaul’s memoir, and more of the book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
“When it comes to generations further back, I know very little–only that art and culture were deeply held familial values.” Tessa Hulls on defying racial and cultural classification in her new graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts. | Lit Hub Memoir
M.C. Mah on the rise and fall and rise of endless streaming: “Our culture’s loss is compounded by subterfuge. Prestige TV plays both sides: at once a weighted blanket and our most vigorous artform.” | Lit Hub TV
“Is this the place to talk about Lily? If you’re going to have flash-backs, Lily has to be the main one.” Read from Jonathan Buckley’s new novel, Tell. | Lit Hub Fiction
“Learning to bring the unnamed to conscious awareness is not only the sole means of demystifying an elusive process; it is itself one of the core aims and pleasures of writing.” Notes on craft, from Greg Jackson. | Granta
Dakota Johnson is starting a book club. | Bustle
What’s the deal with gardens and murder mysteries? Maybe it’s that “gardens are a battleground for good and evil, a meeting place of life and death.” | JSTOR Daily
Feeling nostalgic? The trailer for Butterfly in the Sky, the Reading Rainbow documentary, is out now. | Reactor
Lady Bunny has called RuPaul’s new bookstore venture rainbow capitalism, and she’s not the only one. Why some critics aren’t onboard with Allstora. | Vulture
Counterfeit books are a problem for booksellers, but there might be a solution. | Publishers Weekly
Urban lit authors weigh in on American Fiction. | AP

Lit Hub Daily: March 7, 2024

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