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Lit Hub Daily: November 21, 2024

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TODAY: In 1955, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son is published by Beacon Press.

Billionaires are bad, actually: Maris Kreizman revisits 50 Shades of Grey in the age of the mega-rich creeper. | Lit Hub
Rita Omokha on the 2024 election and what we can learn from history: “Young Black activists have always understood that democracy is not a static achievement but an ongoing process.” | Lit Hub Politics
“My problem was I thought you had to know what you were doing. Nonsense. You just have to start.” Abigail Thomas gifts words of wisdom to younger writers. | Lit Hub Craft
Dive into Sergio de la Pava’s TBR list, featuring Laura Restrepo, Italo Calvino, Flann O’Brien, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
“Knapp’s narrator is a flâneur with push notifications.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Michael Maslin explores what it means to be a New Yorker cartoonist through the careers of Liana Finck and Ed Steed. | Lit Hub Art
“Our fear of Alzheimer’s, which recent research suggests may have been the third leading cause of death in the pre-pandemic United States, far outranks our fear of heart disease and cancer, the first and second leading causes of pre-pandemic deaths.” Andrea Gilats on ageism, care, and Alzheimer’s. | Lit Hub Health
“They say that walking is controlled falling, they say put one foot in front of the other, they say things will return to normal and you will adjust to the change, as if those are similar promises, and possible.” Read from Anna Moschovakis’ new novel, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth. | Lit Hub Fiction
Sam Bowden considers cross-cultural literary translations. | Asymptote
“I do believe that all great works of literature have an ethical core.” Merve Emre talks to Devika Rege about craft, democracy, and nationalism. | Public Books
Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jenny Odell discuss ecology, economics, and the currency of a gift economy. | Orion
Kristen Ghodsee looks to Eastern Europeans’ experiences of “internal immigration” amid authoritarianism for lessons on escapism. | The New Republic
“Every artist has to go through this process of selection and omission every moment…” Sumana Roy examines “etceterization” in literature. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Brian Nicholson talks to cartoonist Michael Shea-Wright about teaching art, writing and comics, and depicting action on the page. | The Comics Journal

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