Lit Hub Daily: November 7, 2023

TODAY: In 1881, Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson, one of the first women to head a major daily newspaper (the Washington Times-Herald), is born.  

• Casey Plett wants to know: What does “community” really mean? | Lit Hub

• “True crime is storytelling. Like any form of literature, sometimes that storytelling is cliche.” Lindsay Hunter on why she loves true crime. | Lit Hub

• It’s another banner week for new books—here are 24 out today. | The Hub

• How Stephanie Land wrote her latest memoir in a month, and other insights from the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• “I found it joyless to treat the local language as a pothole for expats to step around.” Why Naoise Dolan learned Italian for her book tour. | Lit Hub

• Drew Johnson muses on the kaleidoscopic experience of reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “Children’s literature conjures a realm where we can imagine—together—something better than what is.” Miriam Udel on reading to her son while the world is on fire. | New York Times

• Predicting the National Book Awards… with data. | Public Books

• “Jewish security, liberty, and dignity will not be achieved by pulverizing Palestinian buildings, individuals, and social structures.” Read Peter Cole’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. |  The Yale Review

• Katie Yee talks to Weike Wang about humor, writing, and dog voices. | The Margins

• Two members of Moms for Liberty called the cops on a pair of school librarians over a YA fantasy novel. | The Daily Beast

Also on Lit Hub: Sigrid Nunez on the process of writing a pandemic novel • Salar Abdoh on where fiction ends and reality begins • Read from The Collected Stories of Dylan Thomas

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