Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2022

TODAY: In 1895, British Army officer and Scottish war poet Charles Sorley is born.  

• Why is Italo Calvino so beloved outside Italy? Jhumpa Lahiri has some ideas. | Lit Hub Translation

• Annie Hartnett talks to Maris Kreizman about writing a novel while living in a cemetery (and more). | Lit Hub Radio

• How growing up in the digital age affects young minds. | Lit Hub Tech

• When Sidney Poitier went to the Moscow Film Festival: looking back at Cold War “cultural diplomacy.” | Lit Hub History

• The rise of Insta-artists and Insta-poets: Kate Eichorn on what the digitalization of the arts means for culture. | Lit Hub Tech

• Founding the first English-language library in Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha on the importance of the Edward Said Public Library. | Lit Hub

• Looking at Section 230: Eric Berkowitz on the evolution of free speech on the Internet. | Lit Hub Tech

• How Andre Henry looked to songs and sermons to structure a memoir about fighting for Black lives. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “Criminal profiling has been fooling us all.” Eric Barker on the pseudoscience of profiling. | CrimeReads

• “The plot twist, when it arrives, is not in itself ridiculous but the execution is.” Check out the 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• “For three years Marx and Eliot corresponded, frequently talking past each other and sometimes subtly (and not so subtly) insulting one another.” Ed Simon on the tension between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot. | JSTOR Daily

• “Time doth flit; oh shit.” Read the latest issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

• Josh Lambert surveys 2021’s most compelling works of American Jewish literature. | Jewish Currents

• “One could even argue that ghazals aren’t poems at all, but a capricious assembly of couplets that could easily part ways.” Sarah Ghazal Ali on the poetic form for which she was named. | POETRY Magazine

• Molly Farrell discusses Benjamin Franklin’s role in a 1748 book that featured instructions for self-induced abortion. | NPR

• Lucy Webster asks whether disability representation in books has improved in recent years. | The Guardian

• Here’s why doctors and therapists are using comics with their patients. | The Economist

Also on Lit Hub: Also on Lit Hub: Eimear Ryan on women who compete on their own terms • David J. Dennis Jr. on growing up with a complicated man • Read from Alison Espach’s new novel, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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