Lit Hub Daily: November 8, 2022

TODAY: In 1847, Bram Stoker is born.

• My summer of Faludi and Knausgaard: Lynn Steger Strong considers our inability to take in women’s stories “as clearly and non-judgmentally as we do the stories of men.” | Lit Hub Criticism

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• 15 new books to dive into this week. | The Hub

• Catherine Newman talks to Debra Jo Immergut about fictionalizing grief, shifting between art and commerce, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Destructive libidos and the male gaze: Reading the power dynamics of gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. | Lit Hub Criticism

• How Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon resisted uniformity in the “age of advertising.” | Lit Hub History

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• H.W. Brands on the devastating losses that made Geronimo into a legendary war commander. | Lit Hub History

• This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Blair Braverman, Franny Choi, Ted Conover, Evan Mandery, and Lynn Steger Strong. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Lavie Tidhar on the best (and friendliest) robots in science fiction. | CrimeReads

• Haruki Murakami reflects on writing in a foreign language: “I learned that there was no need for a lot of difficult words—I didn’t have to try to impress people with beautiful turns of phrase.” | The Guardian

• “It’s tempting to imagine that the talented young Mary shut herself away in her chamber and began to write her teenaged heart out.” Bryan VanDyke on Mary Shelley’s journals and the non-linearity of creativity. | The Millions

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• Read a newly translated Annie Ernaux story. | The New Yorker

• Daegan Miller considers Wendell Berry’s career, and the surprising turn his latest book represents. | Slate

• Get a first look at the TV adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. | Vanity Fair

• “Being a messenger meant becoming used to strangers commenting on my literary choices.” Michael A. Gonzales reflects on his time as a messenger in 1980s New York City. | Oldster

• View an online exhibit from the Poetry Foundation on the editing of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. | Poetry Foundation

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Also on Lit Hub: Read “The Cat Thief” by Son Bo-Mi (tr. Janet Hong) • A poem by Ed Pavlić • Read from Rebecca Solnit’s latest book, Waking Beauty

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