Lit Hub Daily: October 3, 2022

TODAY: In 1997, Don DeLillo’s Underworld is published by Scribner.   

• “Fascism, fires, fevers: these things are more persistent than we tend to allow.” Thea Lenarduzzi considers pandemics past and present, and the recent Italian election. | Lit Hub History

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• How Amazon accelerated the commodification of literature—and then used our reading data to “slowly subsume all else.” | Lit Hub

• Lynn Melnick reflects on her earliest writing lessons: in a community college comp class… and working for a phone sex line. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Douglas Dreishpoon on the artwork of Helen Frankenthaler, whose “vision of beauty reflected the depths of a human condition.” | Lit Hub Art

• Raina Lipsitz examines the growing coalition between the new left and labor unions. | Lit Hub Politics

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• An Alan Moore story collection, the return of Saga, and more of October’s Best SF and Fantasy Books. | Book Marks

• It must be fall: in which Alex Shephard promises to eat a Haruki Murakami t-shirt (and attempts some Nobel Prize predictions). | The New Republic

• “When you write something down you pretty well kill it. Leave it loose and knocking around up there and you never know—it might turn into something.” A look back at Cormac McCarthy’s early interviews. | The New York Times

• Daniel Torday considers Salvage the Bones, Ulysses, and the power of proprioception. | The Millions

• “Books alone are not bridges. They needed bridge builders. Interpreters. Readers.” Jacki Lyden on an encounter in a Baghdad library. | Arrowsmith Press

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• Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba about the police abolition movement and their new book, No More Police. | Harper’s Bazaar

• Jessica Winter revisits the work of E. Nesbit, the British Socialist and children’s book author. | The New Yorker

• The Atlantic staff discusses the books they needed when they were younger. | The Atlantic

• Bill Carter asks: Do we need yet another “bombshell” book about the Trump administration? | CNN

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of labyrinthine realities • New poetry by Olena Kalytiak Davis • Read from Lucy Ives’s latest novel, Life Is Everywhere

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