Lit Hub Daily: September 12, 2023
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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TODAY: In 1977, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell dies at 60. Photo by Elsa Dorfman.
- Hannah Carlson recounts the feminist fight for women’s pockets. | Lit Hub Style
- Check out the 28 new books available this week. | The Hub
- “If writing helps us think, what happens when we surrender the process to AI?” Naomi S. Baron on the detrimental impact of artificial intelligence on literacy and cognition. | Lit Hub Tech
- Jordan Stump on the tenth anniversary of Marie NDiaye’s Self-Portrait in Green: “Just as in a dream, no incident in a NDiaye novel is ever without meaning, but the nature of that meaning can be stubbornly opaque.” | Lit Hub
- The latest Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Eliza Clark, Joshua Mohr, Etaf Rum, Julius Taranto, and Vauhini Vara. | Lit Hub Questionnaire
- “Ironically, in writing about an environment I’d considered unworthy of literary depiction, I came up with something that interested readers for the first time.” Jeffrey Eugenides on the story behind The Virgin Suicides. | The Guardian
- Aymann Ismail considers the oft-banned sex education book It’s Perfectly Normal. | Slate
- Art Spiegelman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more authors discuss how it feels to have their books banned. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Take a look at the history of the Atlanta-based Venus magazine, which “took the Black queer south to the world.” | JSTOR Daily
- “In bringing Homer back from antiquity, Wilson also had to bridge the chasm of time that has elapsed in English literature since the first full translation of the Odyssey: George Chapman’s, in 1616. But, she cautioned, “you can’t and shouldn’t try to make all that history—layer upon layer—visible in the text. My goal was to evoke an experience like the original, using the language of the people who will read it.” Judith Thurman profiles Emily Wilson. | The New Yorker
- “You can’t edit if you have nothing. You can fix anything in post, but if you don’t have a draft to edit, then you’re just telling everybody about your idea for a novel.” Read an interview with Sarah Rose Etter. | The Creative Independent
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