Lit Hub Daily: May 31, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1819, Walt Whitman is born.
- What should you watch next? Here’s the must-see literary film and television available in June. | Lit Hub Film
- Liana Finck writes (and illustrates) on comics and the ways in which rocks are also people. | Lit Hub Craft
- Carys Davies, Hao Jingfang, Judi Dench, and more! These are May’s best audiobooks. | Lit Hub Audiobooks
- “Solo sailors have demonized sharks from the first voyages.” Richard J. King on tall tales from the high seas. | Lit Hub Nature
- For the paperback lovers, June brings books from authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Gabrielle Zevin, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Yukiko Tominaga on writing in English and Japanese: “Switching around the two languages frees me from my own stigma.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, and Miranda July’s All Fours all feature among May’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- “The last time the Spider lived in America, he had been handsome.” Read from Wei Tchou’s new book, Little Seed. | Lit Hub Fiction
- What’s the first step to making meaningful change? It could be as simple as logging off. | Aftermath
- Author Kate Dwyer explains why it’s harder than ever for debut writers to break out. | Esquire
- Read June Jordan’s 1993 tribute to her friend and fellow activist, Audre Lorde (with an introduction by Alexis Pauline Gumbs). | Jewish Currents
- On Petrarch and the “aristocratic detachment” of venerating literature in Renaissance era Europe. | New York Review of Books
- What the success of Keila Shaheen’s self-published best-seller The Shadow Work Journal reveals about TikTok’s impact on the publishing industry. | The New York Times
- Read the latest issue of Transition magazine, which tracks “the intimate relationship of the Diaspora to all forms of life.” | Transition
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