Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1726, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is published.
- Read an open letter signed by hundreds of authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. | Lit Hub
- “At the very moment when languages worldwide are disappearing at an unprecedented rate, many of the last speakers are on the move.” Ross Perlin on New York City’s unique position to preserve endangered languages. | Lit Hub On Translation
- How the ruins of the Umatilla Chemical Depot reveal illusions of progress and productivity: “I wondered if a more courageous act would have been to never have entered those gleaming office towers at all.” | Lit Hub Technology
- “I remember looking around at an early age, realizing I was the only Brown guy in the dressing room.” Nazem Kadri remembers growing up on the ice rink in Ontario. | Lit Hub Sports
- Anthony Walton explains why Trump’s diabolical appeal to disenfranchised white Americans perpetuates a “Groundhog Day of racial trauma.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Kelly Sather shares how she got her (literary) style from her mother. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The country is always grappling with what it’s supposed to take pride in. With what it’s done that requires reckoning. With what it aspires to be and for whom.” Theodore Johnson on the ways Black Americans commemorate Independence Day. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I had been spending more time teaching at the essay cram-school and working at the coffee shop than writing.” Read from Cho Nam-joo’s collection Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories, translated by Jamie Chang. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Even when there’s no clear through line to change, these are stories that outside reporters just can’t access.” Christopher Blackwell and Emily Nonko consider the necessity of prison journalism. | The Nation
- Sheila Heti on writing advice and the people who give it. | The Paris Review
- Alva Noë on why, despite the promises of AI, computers cannot actually think. | Aeon
- “The store is fun for me, and it serves the public and it’s a resource that gives people access to this elusive material. That’s what I want.” Zach Rabiroff sits down with Gabe Fowler of Brooklyn’s beloved indie comic store, Desert Island. | The Comics Journal
- “This commodification of cultural differences challenges authors and readers as they navigate between authentic expression and market demands.” Alex Taek-Gwang Lee considers the paradox of the Nobel Prize. | e-flux
- Nate Lippens talks to Whitney Mallett about Paul Lynde, the hero/victim binary, and serial killers. | Interview
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