Lit Hub Daily: November 17, 2023

TODAY: In 2013, Doris Lessing, British author and the oldest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 88, dies at 94. (Photo by Larry Amstrong for the Los Angeles Times.)  

• How Michele Wallace shaped Black feminist literary culture in the US. | Lit Hub

• Before the ubiquity of movie trailers, we had Siskel & Ebert. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “To write about a creature at once mythic and also gravely disappeared is like writing about a shadow.” Sonya Swift on the representation and demonization of wolves across cultures. | Lit Hub Nature

• Tim Robinson on the lore of Connemara: “Ghosts and fairies are moods and modes of one’s feeling for the Earth; they wax and wane with our desires and delusions.” | Lit Hub Travel

• How the NYPD policed immigrant neighborhoods in the early days of the 20th century. | Lit Hub History

• Michael Cunningham’s Day, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, and Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Jonathan Shamir reports on Israel’s “unprecedented attack on journalists.” | Jewish Currents

• “Most of Gurnah’s novels are concerned with the epilogue of empire, the alienation the formerly colonized experience in the lands that have forced upon them so much of their language, culture, and politics.” Aminatta Forna on the life and work of Abdulrazak Gurnah. | NYRB

• Have you considered… not writing a memoir? | The Atlantic

• Imagination’s book: A centennial celebration of William Carlos Williams’ hybrid work Spring and All. | JSTOR Daily

• Pink gave away 2,000 banned books at her Florida concerts. | NPR

Also on Lit Hub: Learning to ride a motorcycle after 50 • New poetry by Sebastián H. Páramo • Read from Gabriel Bump’s latest novel, The New Naturals

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