Lit Hub Daily: November 17, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, ecowarrior: “Those who try their best to save the planet will find a loose, cheerful, sexy brass band waiting to honor them right outside the Pearly Gates.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
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How much is our work suffering without physical office space? | Lit Hub Design
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What Anna Moschovakis is reading now and next, from Unpayable Debt to Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand
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A tourney for a penis and unappreciated vulvas: How medieval poets wrote about sex (organs). | Lit Hub History
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“There’s a guidebook, now. And a guide.” Emily Van Duyne muses on medical trauma and Emma Bolden’s The Tiger and the Cage. | Lit Hub Health
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Hermione Hoby on Katherine Dunn’s Toad, Justin Taylor on Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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Alice Henderson on climate change, animals, and finding a way to make people care through fiction. | CrimeReads
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Andrea Wulf recommends stories of unlikely revolutionaries. | The Guardian
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“Don’t date men. Don’t work for men. Don’t talk to men.” Elissa Bassist offers craft (and life) advice. | The Millions
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Over a dozen libraries in the US and Canada have begun offering their own local music streaming services to patrons. | VICE
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“Passion doesn’t pay the bills.” Sophie Vershbow reports from the HarperCollins picket line. | Vulture
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“Davis could tell you, seemingly down to the county level or even the individual workplace, how any component part fit into the larger complex whole.” Gabriel Winant remembers Mike Davis. | n+1
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PEN America reports that nearly 300 books have been taken off school library shelves since August. | The Hill
Also on Lit Hub: Inside the small-brewer scene in 1950s San Francisco • Three poems by Will Alexander • Read a story from Zein El-Amine’s debut collection, Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?
