Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2023
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892, Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies.
- In praise of Mariah Carey: Why Mariah matters to pop history and, more specifically, to her fans. | Lit Hub Music
- “When a book arrives somewhere emotionally moving, it’s because the reader has helped put it there.” Hilary Leichter on the partnership between reader and writer. | Lit Hub Craft of Writing
- On the many ways writers use robots, animals, and animals to tell human stories. | Lit Hub Craft
- All hail Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal: Ian Reid on seeing his 2018 novel Foe on the big screen. | Lit Hub Film & TV
- Nabila Ramdani on the relationship between terrorism and modern France. | Lit Hub History
- “While Passages isn’t about a character learning a message—that the audience is, in turn, supposed to learn—this framing is, from a certain angle, the message of Passages: art and life aren’t resources for extraction.” What Ira Sachs’ Passages achieves in the history of cinema and desire. | Lit Hub Film & TV
