TODAY: In 2001, Kate Christensen’s Hugo Whittier–failed poet and wily misanthrope—starts his first notebook in The Epicure’s Lament.
- “Benjamín Labatut did not want me to come to Santiago. He didn’t want to do a Zoom. He did not want to be described at all.” Adam Dalva tries to profile Benjamín Labatut. | Lit Hub
- Patrick Weil on Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the lost psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson. | Lit Hub History
- Ann Patchett rereads Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, a lush, elegiac novel full of music and sex. | Lit Hub Literary Criticism
- A reading list from Amanda Montei: seven novels that explore consent and coercion. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The album had a picture of a mailman, but our picture wasn’t anywhere on it, because during that time, Black people weren’t allowed to put their pictures on it.” The Marvelettes on how they became Motown music legends. | Lit Hub Music
Also on Lit Hub: McKenzie Wark writes a letter to her younger self • Joyelle McSweeney on poetic turbulence in translation • From Emily Zhou’s new collection, Girlfriends
