Lit Hub Daily: May 20, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1609, Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
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“She cooked like she lived and filmed, with feeling.” Pulitzer-Prize winner Ilyon Woo on the craft lessons she learned from the late filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson. | Lit Hub Craft
Article continues after advertisement - What do clocks, cameras, and cracked doll faces have in common? They’re all collectable. Nancy Miller Gomez on the origin and evolution of an obsession with collecting. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “It was even more of a mystery because the image didn’t come up anywhere on the Hudson River Museum website or gift shop page.” How the search for an image became an exploration of artist Red Grooms’ sculpted bookstore. | Lit Hub Art
- “We are all of us products of our time and parents of children with disabilities might feel this more perniciously than others.” Emily C. Bloom considers the impact and legacy of Pearl S. Buck’s memoir, The Child Who Never Grew. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Wendy Chen on generation poems and the stories hidden in names: “Thus, the name my mother gave me had several stories to tell, as Chinese names often do.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Sometimes, the beauty is in people just talking. Sean Minogue praises the art of the long conversation in film. | Lit Hub Film
- Hidden messages can make fiction fun. J. Nicole Jones on the writers who create literary puzzles and the readers who solve them. | Lit Hub Craft
- “That winter we were poor. Gudrun made eleven hundred dollars a month, but rent and groceries and student loan payments took away a thousand.” Read from Alex Pugsley’s new novel, The Education of Aubrey McKee. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I’ve never reported on the police before, and I had never felt so close to the possibility of violence. It was chilling.” Six student journalists at Columbia discuss what they’ve learned while covering the protests. | The Nation
- How Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker created the “lovingly defiant” children’s book An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Feminist poet and DIY press trailblazer Alta has died at 81. | The New York Times
- “In a rare, somewhat lengthy glimpse at how Sonic Youth worked around the time of their 1992 album Dirty, Moore describes an essentially collaborative process with his bandmates.” On what Thurston Moore’s new memoir adds to a fan’s understanding of Sonic Youth. | Public Books
- On the literary and cinematic representations of nuns (and how we can’t really decide what we think about them). | The New York Times Magazine
- Need a way to celebrate MerMay? Maybe these mermaid-themed poems can help. | Reactor
