Lit Hub Daily: October 23, 2020
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1844, doctor and poet Robert Bridges is born; it was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame.
- “The Kashmiri writer undertakes a daunting task: to write within the landscape of an ongoing violence while exposing the other nuances of daily life.” Sharanya Deepak on the many landscapes of Kashmiri writing. | Lit Hub
- “Literature is meant to reflect back to us our fullest selves, to speak truth to power, and to be a site for greater individual and communal reimagining.” Dujie Tahat on the much-needed structural changes of Seattle’s literary scene. | Lit Hub
- The many ways in which we lost our grandfather: K-Ming Chang on the ghosts in her family. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The sleeplessness and terror—and accompanying writing frenzy—went on for more than a year.” Robert Duncan on the event that brought him back to writing after 30 years. | Lit Hub
- Towards a definition of the brown commons: from José Esteban Muñoz’s posthumously published The Sense of Brown. | Lit Hub Politics
- Protests, poverty, and civil war: a graphic novel on life in Lebanon before the Beirut explosion. | Lit Hub Politics
- “At work one day with nothing else to do, she started to write.” Hiroko Oyamada wrote her first book, The Factory, in a factory. | Lit Hub
- Ella Bittencourt revisits the work of Rubem Fonseca, modernist crime fiction’s reluctant star. | CrimeReads
- Don DeLillo’s latest novel, a collection of Japanese feminist ghost stories, and a new biography of Sylvia Plath all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg ask what will happen to the study of the humanities as the pandemic sends universities into crisis. | The New York Times
- A handful of writers and scholars are on a mission: to finally give female ghost-story writers their due. | The Guardian
- Lewis Carroll, Eudora Welty, Wright Morris, Orhan Pamuk: On the authors who also pursued artistic photography. | Boston Globe
- A new crop of classic literature adaptations is investigating and interrogating the “dusty classics on your bookshelf.” | Esquire
- “[People] who come to our front door seeking safe passage into a ‘nation of immigrants’ are being ushered, instead, into prison.” On immigration narratives and the lie of American asylum. | New York Review of Books
- Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in another adaptation of a literary hit, Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. | Deadline
- Looking back at the growth of the Texas Book Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. | Austin 360
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