Lit Hub Daily: May 5, 2022

TODAY: In 1813, Søren Kierkegaard is born.   

• “Oh, to imagine a world where an abortion merely shows up on a normal ‘to-do’ list.” A conversation among contributors of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. | Lit Hub Roundtable

  Article continues after advertisement
  Remove Ads

• Why Twitter loves James Baldwin (and whether that’s a good thing). | Lit Hub

• The reward of courage: Joanne Greenberg reflects on writing honestly about her mental illness in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. | Lit Hub

• Pyae Moe Thet War considers the Myanmar concept of “hpone,” and how gender-mixing laundry can be a revolutionary act. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Why Liz Michaelski commiserates with Peter Pan’s mother figures. | Lit Hub

  Article continues after advertisement
  Remove Ads

• Heather Cleary remembers her friend Sergio Chejfec and “his ability to take the small, the fragmentary, and to reveal the worlds contained within.” | Lit Hub

• “No redemption is offered here, neither personal nor historical.” On the post-apocalyptic landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Sam W. Haynes delves in to the Indigenous origins of Texas. | Lit Hub History

• Anne Enright on Colin Barrett, Juan Gabriel Vásquez on Fernanda Melchor, Molly Young on John Waters, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Andrew Nette on the distinctive crime films that emerged from Italy’s “Years of Lead.”  | CrimeReads

  Article continues after advertisement
  Remove Ads

• Irene Solà lists ten books that interrogate our relationship to wilderness and “respect its untamed, free and even dangerous nature.” | The Guardian

• “I find myself hopeful—in a gritty way.” Britt Wray talks about climate grief and its implications for activism. | Stanford News

• Remembering Irving Rosenthal, a quiet force in literature who published some of the earliest Beat authors. | The New York Times

• “I’m totally fascinated by the scolding relationship that culture has to daydreaming—and even the ways I’ve internalized some of that scolding.” Leslie Jamison and Heather Havrilesky discuss alternative lives. | Ask Polly

• The story behind Albuquerque’s Red Planet, the world’s only Native comic book shop. | The Nation

  Article continues after advertisement
  Remove Ads

• Emily Saso talks to Courtney Maum about memoir, self-interrogation, and endings. | Full Stop

• “The fear of the supermarket is a fear, often, of that which is uncomfortably feminine—shopping, food, low wages, and the domestic sphere.” Rhian Sasseen considers the literature of the grocery store. | The Baffler

Also on Lit Hub: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood on the writing lessons of tarot • A poem by Jeffrey Yang, from his new collection Line and Light • Read from Miguel Bonnefoy’s newly translated novel, Heritage (tr. Emily Boyce)

---