Lit Hub Daily: November 19, 2020
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1900, German writer Anna Seghers is born.
- Rebecca Solnit: How are we supposed to meet half-way with people for whom belief trumps fact? | Lit Hub Politics
- “Good bookshops are questions without answers.” Jorge Carrion’s ode to bookstores couldn’t come at a better time. | Lit Hub
- “Harry Houdini’s inability to convince Arthur Conan Doyle that he possessed no magical powers caused a fracture in the relationship.” How is this not a TV show yet? | Lit Hub Biography
- Is this the last stand of the Proud Boys? Timothy Denevi, among American brown shirts in the capital. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Kidney Hill was one of the city’s last green lungs, but it was being eaten up by illegal development.” On the orderly chaos of life in Karachi. | Lit Hub History
- “Ann Quin was one of the few British women writing in the 1960s to be recognized a major formal innovator.” Brian Evenson writes on the novel Three. | Lit Hub
- “Working as a journalist in Gaza is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. You must always watch where you step.” Jehad al-Saftawi documents the dangers of his profession. | Lit Hub Politics
- The Guerilla Girls: “It’s an outrage that museums in a wealthy country like the US must rely on billionaires to exist.” Where is the lie? | Lit Hub Art
- “I think in revision there comes a point where you go, Am I going to be able to get away with this?” Doon Arbus talks to Francine Prose about the question that eventually confronts all writers. | Lit Hub Craft
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s memoir, Michael Wolff on Evan Osnos’s Joe Biden biography, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- French ratcatchers, Argentinian seekers, and a new Jo Nesbo: all the international crime fiction to read this month. | CrimeReads
- “This is the thorniest nonfiction publishing challenge that I’ve ever seen.” How publishers are confronting the possibility of a Trump memoir. | The New York Times
- Chloe Maveal digs into the history of lesbian pulp fiction, which “became a liberating experience for many curious women.” | Autostraddle
- Take a tour of Octavia Butler’s life in books and the local libraries that supported her. | Los Angeles Times
- “Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.” Daniel Mendelson on what Trump can learn from the biggest losers in literature and history. | Town & Country
- George Cockcroft, who wrote cult classic The Dice Man as Luke Rhinehart, has died at the age of 87. | The Guardian
- “I write criticism because I feel that if I am being made crazy by the distorted nature of the publishing industry, then other people are as well.” In which Lauren Oyler says all the things you’re probably already thinking. | The End of the World Review
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