Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1925, Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
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Hari Kunzru, Freud, System of a Down, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.” Lilly Dancyger on how to support a friend through grief. | Lit Hub Memoir
- What if you die before you finish your book? Rely on your writing group to take care of your manuscript. | Lit Hub Craft
- Jane Ciabattari in conversation with Claire Messud about past lives and writing from family histories: “The past lives with us, in us, and our understanding of the present is shaped by that past, whether we know it or not.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
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“I had an abortion, I was 17, my father drove me back and forth to this same chic clinic.” How Annie Ernaux inspired Colombe Schneck to write against shame and solitude. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I swung my legs out of bed and stood up carefully. I felt light-headed and hungry, though better than before.” Read from Hari Kunzru’s new novel, Blue Ruin. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Meaningless typos are bad enough, but typos that make sense are exponentially worse.” John McPhee muses on proofreading and Wordle. | The New Yorker
- “We’re no longer talking about an external seizure of the state.” In conversation with author and economist Melinda Cooper. | The Baffler
- Where are bookbinders hanging out these days? TikTok. | The Guardian
- On revisiting the works of Joanna Russ: “If you do not want to die, physically or spiritually, then you must seek your own joy with others who are like you, Russ insists, and share this sense of joy.” | The Nation
- Jacob Silverman revisits Computer Power and Human Reason, the 1976 book and “moral guiding light” by the man who invented the chatbot. | The New Republic
- Graduate student reporter Deeva Gupta shares a firsthand account of the The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia. | n+1
