Lit Hub Daily: November 12, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell dies.
- Lili Anolik explores the tumultuous, iconic, and unmistakably literary friendship between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Biography
- “Books and stories can be a light that leads toward the pursuit of truth in what might be dark times.” W. Ralph Eubanks on the connection between Black writing and Black resistance. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful.” Katherine Rundell considers the near-eternal lives of Greenland sharks. | Lit Hub Nature
- Read newly translated work that “oscillates on the spectrum between bleak realism and tender crests of romanticism” by one of Egypt’s most prominent poets, Mostafa Ibrahim. | Lit Hub On Translation
- These 24 new books are out today, including work by Youngmi Mayer, Julian Zabalbeascoa, and Lili Anolik. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Juhea Kim, Daniel M. Lavery, Alan Lightman, and more authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire: “Writers have their voices. Have their hang-ups. Have their idiosyncratic fascinations. Things they can’t let go. It’s the most obvious thing, right?” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Marguerite Sheffer talks to Jane Ciabattari about symbolism, writing across time, and crafting the short story. | Lit Hub Craft
- “That was about the time I put my faith in nothing.” Read from Sergio de la Pava’s new novel, Every Arc Bends Its Radian. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “If Flaubert’s literary criticism set the terms of our own, it developed in dialogue with and in opposition to his interlocutors—often, if not exclusively, his female correspondents.” Victoria Baena on the feminist critic Amélie Bosquet’s influence on Flaubert. | The New Yorker
- After a decades-long ban, The Satanic Verses can now be imported to India (because officials can’t find the paperwork banning it). | NBC News
- “If every generation thinks it invented sex, they are also wrong when they invent choosing childlessness.” Aaron Bady considers four recent books and the myth of the chosen childlessness epidemic. | Boston Review
- Why the editors of the zine Queer Palestine “caution against reducing these lives to the spectacle of violence.” | Full Stop
- Colm Tóibín on Jane DeLynn’s In Thrall as a touchstone of queer literature. | The Nation
- Tony Ho Tran explains how unraveling a family mystery led him to document gravestones and plot markers in Chicago cemeteries. | Slate
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