Lit Hub Daily: November 11, 2021

TODAY: In 1948, James Baldwin boards a plane to Paris with 40 dollars in his pocket.  

• “I missed them again this year. / I was immersed elsewhere.” Read “September Mushrooms,” a new poem by Margaret Atwood. | Lit Hub Poetry

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• A woman of the Wild West: On Pearl Hart, poetry-writing bandit and most infamous woman in America (circa 1899). | Lit Hub History

• Christy NaMee Eriksen on what avalanches can teach us about grief. | Lit Hub 

• “Often, when watching Wes Anderson, I think of reading Joan Didion.” Lucas Mann on The Grand Budapest Hotel and the emotional depth of aesthetic surfaces. | Lit Hub Film

• Kyle T. Mays argues for rethinking Afro-Indigenous history in the United States. | Lit Hub History

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• Uli Beutter Cohen recounts how she accidentally launched the Subway Book Review, her new office “the city’s beating heart that never stops.” | Lit Hub

• “There’s no place where I feel more contrast than in the space of my own family.” Denne Michele Norris, Victoria Chang, Marie-Helene Bertino, Julie Klam, and Qian Julie Wang discuss writing about origin families. | Lit Hub

• “I’m Gen X, so of course there are index cards involved.” Rachel Howzell Hall talks craft and crime with Shop Talk columnist Eli Cranor. | CrimeReads

• Louise Erdrich recommends the books that have made a lasting impact on her personal and creative life. | Elle

• “It’s always what I’m writing about, maybe because, as long as I’m writing about the Lord I lost, I can still, in a way, be with Him.” R.O. Kwon on leaving the Christian faith and the Texas antiabortion law. | Vanity Fair

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• On idols and muses: Marina Abramović and Hugo Huerta Marin in conversation. | Interview

• “Some knot of mortal frustration is diagrammed, again and again, across a lifetime, but not in any way untied.” Benjamin Kunkel considers Patricia Highsmith’s diaries. | The New Republic

• What if we taught writing the way we teach acting? | Catapult

• Kiese Laymon and Tressie McMillan Cottom discuss life, change, and revision with Ezra Klein. | The New York Times

• “The things that we don’t speak about really are those that have come to control the planet and really have come to control our lives.” Amy Goodman talks to Amitav Ghosh. | Democracy Now

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Also on Lit Hub: Heather Hansman on trying to find a life in a Colorado ski town • Read “The Day Prince Died,” a poem from Andrea Gibson’s new collection • Read from Gary Shteyngart’s latest novel, Our Country Friends 

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