Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft dies.
- “Apparently, I had been walking like the actual gangster I had once been—not a good one, certainly, but I had mastered the look of a good one in motion.” Jerald Walker on crip walking and the shifting significance of Black gestures. | Lit Hub Style
- Devika Rege, Carolyn Jack, Matthew Davis and more authors answer our burning questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Looking for your next read? The Lit Hub staff recommends 17 new fall novels to add to your bookshelf. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “We can’t help but wonder about the arbitrary demands and strictures placed on these individuals: What was it all for?” Rachel Khong on Ha Jin’s Waiting and the mercy of the arbitrary. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Rebecca Nagle on how a small town murder raised questions of tribal sovereignty in the Muscogee Nation: “Many of the most important legal decisions about tribal land and sovereignty come from surprising places.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Joya Chatterji examines national identity in South Asia and the violence of partition, from her Cundill Prize-shortlisted Shadows at Noon. | Lit Hub History
- Roddy Doyle, Monique Roffey, Elizabeth Strout, and more! These 28 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The season, of course, was winter. The vapour in the air stung like dry ice and smelled of camphor.” Read from Devika Rege’s debut novel, Quarterlife. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The once-majestic empire quickly became a tragicomic history lesson and, more recently, colorful fodder for some bodice-ripping popular culture.” Natasha Wheatley profiles Eduard Habsburg. | The Dial
- “Currents offers sanctuary and a place of instruction for a generation of Jews who love their parents but have split with them.” On the role of Jewish Currents. | The New Yorker
- “Many people say they believe in organizing—in the workplace, in the neighborhood, or in the statehouse—but very few people commit to the slow, methodical work of doing it well.” On Jane McAlevey. | n+1
- Gabriel Fine asks, “What do we owe to language in times of unimaginable violence?” On Texas, poetics, and Palestine. | The Texas Observer
- “Writing the screenplay was a dream come true for Bradbury, until it morphed into a waking nightmare.” Sam Weller details the ill-fated collaboration between John Huston and Ray Bradbury on the production of Moby-Dick. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Lucy Ives enters the myth-world of My Little Pony. | The Paris Review
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