Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1946, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh opens on Broadway.
- Ben Edge recommends work by John Maizels, Charles Freger, Stefan Fisher and more books that showcase European folklore. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The facility is a lot like the Hotel California: objects check in, but they never need to leave.” How freeports enabled international art theft. | Lit Hub Art
- Rachel Robbins considers fact, memory, and how family stories can inform historical fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
- “We need both personal voices and objective inquiry to achieve a deeper understanding of remembering.” Debra Nystrom on the relationship between memoir and the science of memory. | Lit Hub Science
- Dana Frank excavates the stories of women, immigrants, and poor Americans from the Great Depression. | Lit Hub History
- Richard Bernstein on how American Jews carved out a place for themselves during the the early years of mass entertainment. | Lit Hub Biography
- “George finished his cigarette, but Larry had no qualms keeping him there as he rattled off his usual litany of complaints…” Read from Kate Greathead’s new novel, The Book of George. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I find it absolutely astonishing that she essentially wrote the same novel three times, three different ways.” Revisiting The Lover at 40. | Public Books
- Camilla Grudova on what it means to be a working writer, bodily fluids and all. | Granta
- Joshua Rothman asks, should you just give up? | The New Yorker
- Elizabeth A. Harris looks into the way librarians are “weeding” frequently challenged books from their shelves. | The New York Times
- “I am tattooed now, yes, but mostly I’m nothing like the cool grown-up I thought I was preparing myself to be when I was 22, getting a tattoo from my friend’s husband.” Rumaan Alam on tattoos in middle age. | Esquire
- Michael DeForge on how how Canada’s most prestigious literary prize is weaponizing its wealth and power against pro-Palestinian speech. | Canadian Dimension
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