
Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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Narratives everywhere all at once: How stories came to dominate every facet of our lives (for better and for worse). | Lit Hub Criticism
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“For the first time, Joanne and I could do what we longed for years to do in public.” Paul Newman on the “lusty time” he had filming The Long, Hot Summer with Joanne Woodward. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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A recipe for green eggs and ham (and biscuits) that you’ll want to eat in a house with a mouse. | Lit Hub Food
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Carl Phillips on the value of not trying too hard: “As long as I am living in language, I count it as writing.” | Lit Hub Craft
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Jeanna Kadlec on why a journal (which is definitely not a memoir!!) can be a safety net for memoirists. | Lit Hub
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Jessica Lander looks at the essential work happening at the only US school dedicated to teaching refugee girls. | Lit Hub
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Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts, George Saunders’s Liberation Day, and Paul Newman’s The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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John Jay Osborn Jr., author of The Paper Chase, has died at 77. | The New York Times
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“I try—with Kierkegaard’s help—to climb from the basement to the top! As do many of my protagonists.” Vigdis Hjorth on process, scapegoats, and ecological crisis. | Astra Magazine
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A primer on reading Sylvia Plath for those new to her work. | The Guardian
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“Climate change is in fact being recognized as a branding opportunity by oil majors and financial firms, and to address it as such is proving a much smarter strategy than to deny or outright ignore it.” Adrienne Buller talks about the concept of “green” capitalism. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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“It’s like when the West goes into Africa, sees the art, sees the culture, then literally seizes the physical artifacts and brings them home.” How a translation of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, a book-length poem about a slave ship massacre, erased her voice. | The Walrus
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What will we eat at the end of the world? The Anthropocene Cookbook has some ideas. | Atlas Obscura
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Prince Harry’s much-anticipated memoir, Spare, will be released in January. | Vanity Fair
Also on Lit Hub: The literary film and TV you should stream in November • Chasing local folklore at the edge of the ocean • Read a story from Zsolt Láng’s newly translated collection, The Birth of Emma K. (tr. Owen Good and Ottilie Mulzet)

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