Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1754, Henry Fielding dies.
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These are the 10 best books for understanding America’s class system, featuring Matthew Desmond, Isabel Wilkerson, Thomas Piketty, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “I learned how to stay out of the way, describing what was happening as I imagined it, no matter how weird.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Luis Jaramillo. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Charles Bock, Mike Fu, Kate Greathead, and more authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire: “ I have a good handle on the rhythms of sentences. I still don’t really know what I’m doing with pacing.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “It is about more than a few books that are claimed to be unfit for young readers. It is a purge of ideas.” Kenneth C. Davis on the incendiary power of literature in an era of censorship. | Lit Hub Politics
- Witold Rybczynski explores the dark Nazi history of the Volkswagen Beetle. | Lit Hub History
- Alejandro Zambra considers the stories (literary and otherwise) we pass down to our children. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Margaret Atwood, Maame Blue, Jenny George, and more! These 25 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “My husband and I are parked on the edge of a lake, eating Subway sandwiches. We’re returning from a wedding in a neighboring city.” Read from Tara Isabel Zambrano’s story collection, Ruined a Little When We Are Born. | Lit Hub Fiction
- The American presidential election through an international lens, courtesy of 12 different writers. | The Dial
- Meet the London cartographer who’s mapping all your favorite novels. | The Washington Post
- “‘Don’t read me,’ my father would say to me. ‘Read the greats.’” Sage Mehta on growing up with the writer Ved Mehta. | The New Yorker
- On a global history of witches: “Witchcraft reveals our persistent and enduring tendency to imagine the existence of evil people.” | Aeon
- “…what does the moral indictment of one year of genocide mean that one hundred days of genocide or six months of genocide did not?” Sarah Aziza on Gaza, a year later. | The Baffler
- Maria Sciliano revisits Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric after a decade. | The Millions
