Lit Hub Daily: October 5, 2022

TODAY: In 1869, model, poet, and artist Elizabeth Siddal is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poems buried with her.    

• An invitation to stand in cultural solidarity at the Lviv BookForum, programmed virtually around the world this week. | Lit Hub Ukraine

• “In truth, nobody today can be a poet if he doesn’t seriously doubt his right to be one.” Elias Canetti on writing in a tumultuous and troubling world. | Lit Hub

• Was 16th-century poet John Donne really a playboy? Katherine Rundell considers sex and literature in the Elizabethan era. | Lit Hub Biography

• “I have no appetite for his work anymore. But I can’t pretend I never did.” Erin Keane muses on Woody Allen’s Manhattan, powerful men, and unmaking myths both cinematic and familial. | Lit Hub Criticism

• A look back at 100 years of Emily Post’s Etiquette. | Lit Hub History

• “The Six, I call us. Like we’re the Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, or the kids with the rings that bring Captain Planet to life.” Javier Zamora tells the story of his childhood migration. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “No one book can account for what happened here.” Corinne Segal considers Feral City, gentrification, and the way we talk about our collective and individual experiences during the pandemic. | The Washington Post

• What is the future of audiobooks? | The Guardian

• An investigation into the purposeful opacity of book sales data. | Public Books

• “No Black daughter ever thinks—or wants to admit—that she, too, will become a grown, disrespected, Black woman in America.” Honorée Jeffers on her mother and the power of an honorific. | Harper’s Bazaar

• The finalists for the National Book Award in Translated Literature discuss their processes. | Words Without Borders

• School board members in a Maine district voted to keep Maia Kobabe’s often-challenged Gender Queer on library shelves. | The Hill

• Reshma Saujani writes about the experience of having her own book banned in a school district. | Newsweek

Also on Lit Hub: Prince Shakur on coming of age as a queer Jamaican boy in America • The power and possibility of retelling classic stories • Read from Kirmen Uribe’s newly translated novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (tr. Elizabeth Macklin)

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