Lit Hub Daily: May 17, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1863, Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
- “Her work is haunted by the beyond.” Spending time in Joy Williams’s celestial waiting rooms. | Lit Hub Criticism
- New books Tuesday! Here are 19 you should check it. | The Hub
- “Back to basics. Just hot dogs, babka, and gratitude for vaccines.” Emma Straub’s advice for what to wear to a book launch. | Lit Hub Style
- Victoria Shorr on the art of the novella. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “For much of my life, I had no connection to anything Korean whatsoever—originally by circumstance, and eventually by choice.” Peter Serpico on connecting to his heritage through food. | Lit Hub Food
- Vanessa Hua talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing the lives of the forgotten women in Mao’s inner circle. | Lit Hub
- TANAÏS on the politics of caste and feminine joy in Satyajit Ray’s classic Charulata. | Lit Hub Film
- Twenty-three new and upcoming books by Asian-American and Pacific Islander authors perfect for mystery readers. | CrimeReads
- The addiction song is a torch song, in which a moment of love, which is to say presence, is followed by days and weeks, a lifetime really, of absence.” Peter Trachtenberg on listening to “Junco Partner (Worthless Man).” | Guernica
- Emma Straub talks phone chats, time travel, and growing up as the child of a horror writer. | The Cut
- Adam Bradley considers the recent renaissance of campus satire onscreen and on the page, “offering new understandings of a swiftly changing campus.” | T Magazine
- When Darcy met Darcy: Matthew Macfadyen and Colin Firth in conversation. | Vanity Fair
- The organizers of a “Little Queer Library” in Waltham, Massachusetts, say its books keep getting stolen. | Boston Globe
- These books explore the experiences of people living between cultures. | Book Riot
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