Lit Hub Daily: November 4, 2024

☆☆☆ THE ISSUES: 2024 ☆☆☆

Lit Hub is taking an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls tomorrow, November 5th. Today we look at the grave risk to LGBTQ rights across America. | Lit Hub Politics 

• “Part of what gives our lives meaning is the confidence or at least hope that these good things will persevere beyond us.” Rebecca Solnit on how we, the altruistic people, can build a better future. | Lit Hub Politics
• What does the High Line reveal about Manhattan? Aaron Betsky explores contemporary urban transformation in New York City. | Lit Hub Design
• Yvonne Conza talks to A.M. Homes, author of The Unfolding, about the complexity of contemporary political life: “There is no interwoven agreed-upon narrative that is the true American narrative.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Amy Gash on finding inspiration in the timeless wisdom of children’s books as Election Day approaches. | Lit Hub Book News
• “There is nothing in me now / of what I was before. That’s / what he tells himself.” Read an excerpt of the poem “Mojave Ghost” by Forrest Gander. | Lit Hub Poetry
• Hidden faces, earth tones, and other seasonal delights appear across the best book covers of October. | Lit Hub Design
• Rosalind Fox Solomon remembers her creative mentor and ex-husband through words and images. | Lit Hub Photography
• On “reference novels,” the internet novel’s incredibly niche descendant. | The Walrus 
• Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller consider Sean Baker’s Anora and the vernacular of sex work. | New York Review of Books
• “Some of this is the brilliantly honed shtick of a standup comedian. Some of it is Parker being an alcoholic.” Sloane Crosley on Dorothy Parker as a master of the literary takedown. | The New Yorker
• “I lost thirty members of my extended family in one airstrike… This shadow, which is the part of me that remained in Gaza, has bled seas of black blood.” What poet Mosab Abu Toha wants you to know about life in Gaza. | Electric Literature
• So, who’s really writing those celebrity novels? Sophie Vershbow talks to some of the ghostwriters and agents behind the books. | Vulture
• “…at its core, physics is fundamentally a word problem.” Why storytelling is essential to the understanding of physics. | Aeon