Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2021

TODAY: In 1866, Ramón del Valle-Inclán is born.  

• As the World Series plays out, Lincoln Michel asks (and answers) a very important question: why is baseball the most literary of sports? | Lit Hub Sports

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• Emma Lewis considers feminist photography, which requires “awareness of the ethics involved in accessing another person’s space.” | Lit Hub Photography

• “The aim of Lordean rage is to bring about change—to create a world in which racial injustice is no more.” Myisha Cherry looks to Audre Lorde as a guide for navigating systemic oppression. | Lit Hub Politics

• The radical potter: How Josiah Wedgwood united his moral passion and commercial acumen to create an iconic abolitionist medallion. | Lit Hub History

• “The hardest thing you may ever do in your literary life is to write a lyric essay that feels finished to you.” Julie Marie Wade on teaching (and writing, and musing on…) fragmentary, lyric essays. | Lit Hub Craft

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• “Poetry isn’t an art made by singular geniuses.” A conversation with the editors of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. | Lit Hub Poetry

• A reading list of influential war reportage from Janine di Giovanni. | Lit Hub

• Molly Odintz recommends 17 horror comedies to watch this Halloweekend. | CrimeReads

• Blind people have won the right to create accessible versions of e-books, with an exemption to digital copyright law (but they’ll have to appeal again in three years). | Wired

• Arianna Rebolini considers the legacy of Sylvia Plath and asks, “How do we survive suicide?” | Catapult

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• “The stories unfold in the middle ground between act and understanding, as character or reader or both are pulled inexorably from the former to the latter.” On Edith Wharton’s Ghosts. | The Baffler

• Remembering the book series “True Philippine Ghost Stories” and how it reflects Filipino culture and traditions. | Vice

• Colm Tóibín on his fascination with Thomas Mann. | The Believer

• Jennifer Schaffer discusses Matthew Salesses’ latest book and the role of the writing workshop, which “casts a shadow on the kind of mainstream literature that is published.” | The Nation

• Melissa Lozada-Oliva talks about addressing the legacy of Selena in her debut novel. | Vogue

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Also on Lit Hub: Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis and the boy’s club of the art world • Nina Jankowicz recommends books to help us battle fake news • Read from Paul Griffiths’s latest novel, Mr. Beethoven

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