Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2021

TODAY: In 1902, poet Arna Bontemps is born.   

• “Continue squeezing until all the tomatoes are gone or until you feel like Macbeth at the end of his play.” Stanley Tucci shares his grandmother’s famous tomato sauce recipe. | Lit Hub Food

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• Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on working at a chain bookstore in his twenties, and the frequent caller who helped make him a music critic. | Lit Hub Music

• “Am I willing to write about the dead? Will the language that I make murder me?” Victoria Chang on writing into the silence. | Lit Hub Craft

• Albert Samaha recommends books that capture the sprawling history of the Philippines. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Why was Truman Capote so fascinated with “fabulously rich” women? | Lit Hub

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• “Better to prepare girls for what’s coming, no? Better to tell them the bad news first, and let them invent their own good news later.” Catherine Lacey on Life Sciences and its heroine’s doomed female lineage. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Why Scotsman Daniel Sloss loves to drink fruity little cocktails in America. | Lit Hub Humor

• “HANDS OFF ANGELA DAVIS.” When NOW tried (and failed) to exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance from feminist history. | Lit Hub History

• A Sport and a Pastime, Brideshead Revisited, Where the Red Fern Grows, and more rapid-fire book recs from Peter Cameron. | Book Marks

• James Han Mattson recommends six novels that go beyond the literary/horror divide. | CrimeReads

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• “I am full of joy.” 103 African writers respond to Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize win. | Brittle Paper

• Rachel Syme reconsiders the food writing of Laurie Colwin. | The New Yorker

• On teaching the MFA at Bennington. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• What are the most influential sci-fi books of all time? | Book Riot

• Elizabeth Haigh’s cookbook publisher will not move forward with her over allegations of plagiarism. | Eater

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• Exploring the film adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which is ultimately a story “about the possibility of redemption.” | Bright Wall/Dark Room

• “I feel like a fool to have rooted for Dave Chappelle for so long.” Saeed Jones on watching The Closer as a gay Black man. | GQ

Also on Lit Hub: How Black women won the vote (in spite of white suffragists) • A poem by Frank Bidart • Read from Alice Hoffman’s latest novel, The Book of Magic

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