Lit Hub Daily: May 1, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: Paul Auster, 1947-2024.
- Lorrie Moore, Drew Gilpin Faust, Bethanne Patrick, and more! These new paperbacks are waiting for you. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Aarathi Prasad on how silk helped Genghis Khan conquer a continent. | Lit Hub History
- These new sci-fi and fantasy books are coming in May from authors including Veronica Roth, Peter S. Beagle, and Suyi Davies Okungbowa. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I was aspiring to a romantic ideal that no one more than he represented.” Jason K. Friedman on loving Cormac McCarthy’s early work. | Lit Hub Memoir
- If you’re craving literary film and TV, we’ve got you covered. Here are the most anticipated movies and shows coming to streaming this month. | Lit Hub Film
- “I am completely alone, even though I’m not by myself.” Read Stella Gaitano’s story “Zero” from the latest issue of The Common. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On James Baldwin’s cinematic aspirations. | The Guardian
- “To write all day long without revising until you reach the end of a story produces an obscene quantity of books.” Alejandro Chacoff profiles César Aira (trans. By Jessica Sequiera). | The Dial
- Maxine Hong Kingston reflects on aging, vanity, and nostalgia. | The New York Times
- Are people still buying books? Of course they are. | Slate
- Academics have pledged a cultural and academic boycott of Columbia University and Barnard College in response to the treatment of protesting students who have called for divestment from Israel and an end to genocide in Gaza.
- “They didn’t want law and order, they wanted revenge.” On universities, police administration, and what we can learn from Stop Cop City. | n+1
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