Lit Hub Daily: October 24, 2017

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1764, Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist, translator, and eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, is born. 
  • America’s enduring pastime: Mets fan Sara Novic on baseball, misogyny, and finally reading The Natural. | Literary Hub
  • Lit Hub Folio: Introducing theMystery.doc, Matthew McIntosh’s ambitious, epic, multiform novel. | Literary Hub
  • Nadifa Mohamed on what we really lost in the Grenfell Tower fire. | Literary Hub
  • On writer/musician/artist Kate Tempest’s genre-defying experiments in radical empathy. | Literary Hub
  • How far is too far? Talking to political satirist and New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt about coming up with jokes in the Age of Trump. | Literary Hub
  • On making a pilgrimage to one of the world’s most beautiful books. | Literary Hub
  • He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine: Three early reviews of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. | Book Marks
  • “The fraught discovery of the joy, the misery, the awe of making oneself vulnerable to passion was permanently sealed into the continued rereading of a great novel.” Vivian Gornick on coming of age with D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. | Harper’s
  • On the post-Trump rise of erasure poetry, a form which “can mimic the violence of the state” but also “symbolically restore a voice to the silenced.” | The New Republic
  • “Her mother’s abandonment seemed to have given Marnie access inside a whole carnival tent of unwanted discoveries.” Short fiction by Alissa Nutting. | BuzzFeed Reader
  • Move over Chipotle: Along with the 92nd Street Y, Xerox has released an anthology of writing about work, featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, and more. | The New York Times
  • It is not just imaginary philosophers who love baseball, and it is not just me: On “the most philosophical of games.” | Public Books
  • “People only want to see Hasids selling drugs or having gay sex, I told them. They don’t care to watch them study Torah.” On writing a book about the insular world of Chabad-Lubavitch. | Guernica
  • In its response to the American Heart backlash, Kirkus “has somehow managed to misapprehend both the nature of reviewing and the nature of books.” | The New Yorker

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