Lit Hub Daily: May 15, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: Remembering Alice Munro.
- The great Alice Munro has died. We remember her life and work. | Lit Hub
- “True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.” Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I’m human, I’m working for a living.” Studs Terkel talks to Babe Secoli about her work as a supermarket checker in the classic oral history of working Americans. | Lit Hub Biography
- Kimberly King Parsons recommends sisterly fiction by Ruth Madievsky, Cecily Wong, Vauhini Vara, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I was surprised to find some of the bigger profiles of Ernaux don’t mention photography.” Lou Stoppard on pairing photographs with Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors. | Lit Hub Photography
- This one’s for the Yinzers. Ed Simon on the Glaswegian origins of Pittsburghese. | Lit Hub History
- What’s a bibliophile to do this summer (aside from reading)? Bob Eckstein recommends 4 must-see museums. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “If you have a theory that does not bring kindness and compassion to people who are suffering, what you really need, more than anything else, is a new theory.” Jennifer Finney Boylan on what the Freudian concept of penis envy gets wrong about trans people. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Kiyo Sato examines the dehumanizing use of language in Japanese interment camps: “Here’s the truth: I am now called a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights.” | Lit Hub History
Article continues after advertisement - “I took the Adderall. I took a lot of shit from my ex, Snowball.” Read from Honor Levy’s new story collection, My First Book. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On the complex legacy and forgotten poetry of Cherokee novelist Yellow Bird, AKA John Rollin Ridge. | Public Books
- “Aristotle pondered why it was always the thoughtful ones, like poets, artists, and philosophers (himself included), who succumbed.” A brief history of melancholy. | The MIT Press Reader
- Diana Ruzova interviews Katya Apekina about “the Russian soul,” family histories, and trauma. | Full Stop
- “Any story that’s going to be any good is usually going to change.” Read Alice Munro’s 1994 interview with Jeanne McCulloch and Mona Simpson. | The Paris Review
- “Is the answer a multitude of languages or a renunciation of one?” Madeleine Schwartz on losing a native language. | The New York Times Magazine
- Kathleen Hanna and Brontez Purnell discuss trauma, memoir, and birthday twins. | Interview
