Lit Hub Daily: November 25, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1952, Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap, the longest running play on record, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre, London.
- “When I write, I do not make big plans, I have the text in me.” Ayşegül Sert interviews Werner Herzog. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Edward Said’s children and Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo Editions consider The Question of Palestine’s enduring legacy. | Lit Hub Criticism
Article continues after advertisement - Martha White remembers what her grandfather, E.B. White, loved about New York City: “He was able to connect the big events of the day with the dailiness of our lives in a way that stands the test of time.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Aaron Boehmer on what young journalists can learn from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Ed Simon on Sven Birkerts’ The Guttenberg Elegies and why reading remains fundamental in this historical moment. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The doctor is reciting the list; it sounds like a song.” Read from Marian Womack’s new story collection Out of the Window, Into the Dark. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Quentin Meillassoux on music, Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry, and the void. | The Paris Review
- How Gaylord Wilshire gave up wealth and comfort to publish a socialist magazine. | JSTOR Daily
- If you’re thinking about writing a letter to an author, Alexander Chee urges you to do it. | The Boston Globe
- “Their pain is still my pain.” Asmaa Yassin on the women she left behind in Gaza. | The Nation
- Today in movie stars reading: Josh Brolin loves A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. | The New Yorker
- Mark Kingwell on combating distrust and polarization with solidarity. | Jacobin
