Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1867, Marx’s Das Kapital is published.
- José Henrique Bortoluci explores familial and collective memory of authoritarian rule in Brazil: “To workers attracted by these expanding frontiers, the destruction of the forest was sold as an inevitable path towards collective progress and a dignified life.” | Lit Hub History
- “I think of all writing—fiction, poetry, nonfiction—as communication first, and that denotes a kind of communion…” Pascha Sotolongo on loneliness, Latin American lit, and the fantastic. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Alex Hannaford considers the end of an era and examines why Austin, Texas is no longer the weird, artistic haven it was. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Paperbacks by Bryan Washington, Thurston Moore, Molly McGhee, and more are coming to a bookstore (or library) near you in October. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “It’s no surprise that contemporary Russian poems are rife with subtle allusions to other literature.” Forrest Gander on how two innovative Moscow poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko, mined the past to reveal the present. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Dionne Brand on appearance, coloniality and the creation of the self: “I now recognize myself as authored, altered. As selected, sorted, from a series of selves.” | Lit Hub Memoir
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and more! These 27 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“It’s amazing what a summer can do.” Read from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new novel, The Third Realm. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Boo! Is Marxism (un)dead? On the immortal ghost of Karl Marx. | Jacobin
- Author and historian Rachel Louise Moran on an American history of postpartum depression. | The Baffler
- How indigenous languages are finding new students and speakers online. | The Walrus
- Silent Spring remains an important environmental book, but, as Katie MacBride asks, did it also fuel misinformation? | Slate
- Kate Dwyer looks into the crisis of arts funding in the U.S., and the people trying to build a new creative economy. | Esquire
- Just in time for Spooky Season: A brief history of Baba Yaga. | Atlas Obscura
