Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1932, William Faulkner arrives in Hollywood to begin working as a screenwriter.
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Why not organize your bookcase using the vibes-only method? Monica Wood on why she organizes books by emotion. | Lit Hub Criticism
Article continues after advertisement - “While African-American jazzmen had a hard time on the road, be it finding accommodations or earning a living wage, African-American jazzwomen had it tougher.” Larry Tye on the triumphs and struggles of Black women in 20th century jazz. | Lit Hub Music
- “I felt like those long dead men were reaching out from those miserable trenches to speak to us today.” Ann Hood on World War I trench art. | Lit Hub History
- What’s sprezz? Magdalena Zyzak explains: “Sprezz is effortlessness with hidden effort. Sprezz is never quoting from your own novel.” | Lit Hub Craft
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Colm Tóibín, Jamaica Kincaid, Lily Dancyger, and more. These 27 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Lucy McKeon and Zoë Schlanger on what plant intelligence can reveal about us. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Here is an island year. First the sun, and first the spring growing fat with birds.” Read from Elizabeth O’Connor’s new novel, Whale Fall. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On why Nietzsche hated socialism: “Nietzsche is obsessed with pacifying the movements which he views as being in favor of leveling and equality.” | Jacobin
- Michelle Tea and Sarah Yanni talk about anthology building and the language of sex. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “As any reader of fairy tales knows, dark forests are places of obscurity, but not of safety.” Examining the internet as a place of refuge and the films of Jane Schoenbrun. | New York Review of Books
- Take a tour of literary Montreal with Mona Awad. | The New York Times
- Paulina Proznitz digs into the rise of the wildly popular, “straight-up filthy” romantasy genre. | Air Mail
- On the “gender trouble” inherent to L. Frank Baum’s The Enchanted Island of Yew. | Public Books
