Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2019

TODAY: In 1900, “Le Duel d’Hamlet,” the first film adaptation of the play, starring Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet is screened.

• The end of the decade is nigh, and so our reckoning continues with the ten best debut novels of the 2010s. | Lit Hub
• “One day, maybe, a body will be like a costume, put it on, take it off.” Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell discuss the future of humanity in a tech-dominated world. | Lit Hub
• Ocean Vuong pays tribute to the ten books that made his novel novel possible, from The Gangster We Are All Looking For to Go Tell It on the Mountain. | Lit Hub
• “Why should the truth not be impossible? Why should the impossible not be true?” On the irreconcilable temptations of Anne Carson, just in time for Nobel Prize week(ish). | Lit Hub
• Felicia Day on writer’s block, weirdness, and women with swords. | Lit Hub
• Why give a rapist a voice? Jeannie Vanasco on writing the character of her abuser. | Lit Hub
• “If scoops are the oil that keep a newsroom’s engine humming, they can just as easily ruin the rhythm of narrative nonfiction.” Steve Luxenberg on journalism versus storytelling. | Lit Hub
• Cornel West on the revolutionary Foundry Theater, “a uniquely American movement against the dominant forces in America.” | Lit Hub
• What a debate over Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament says about “reality literature.” | The New Yorker
• A new collection has “shattering” testimonials from school shooting survivors. | The Washington Post
• “No use even memorizing our names. We are the Bobble Girls, no lives before or after that title, no life other than this one.” Read T Kira Madden’s fan fiction about the big-headed girls from those old Steve Madden ads. | Garage
• Cover your eyes: Quentin Tarantino is writing a novel. | VICE
• As Beijing tries forcibly assimilating the Uighur population in northwest China, many Uighurs have moved to Istanbul, where they attempt to keep their culture alive through music, painting, poetry, and more. | Foreign Policy
• Jenna Bush Hager, who has one of the most popular book clubs around, announced her October pick: Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House. | CheatSheet

Also on Lit Hub: Are civilization and income inequality inextricably intertwined? • On Monsieur Bovary, one of literature’s most necessary characters • Read an excerpt from Carol Anshaw’s new novel Right After the Weather.

 

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