Lit Hub Daily: September 12, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: 1892: 11-year-old Virginia Stephen, aka Virginia Woolf, takes a boat trip to Godrevy Lighthouse on a family holiday in Cornwall.
- Thomas Frank talks to Whitney Terrell about what the Harris-Walz ticket can do to win over red state voters. | Lit Hub Radio
- “I love my writing space, but lately I am finding it difficult to sit still in there.” Karen Salyer McElmurray on the memories that linger where we write. | Lit Hub Craft
- Maris Kreizman on the importance of publishing gossip and Instagram’s xoxopublishinggg. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Elizabeth Shick recommends books by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Karen Connelly, Charmaine Craig and more authors who capture the complexities of Myanmar. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Read “The Belfast Pogrom: Some Observations,” a poem by Paul Muldoon from the collection Joy in Service on Rue Tagore. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “What I didn’t know at the time was that for Yemeni Jews, the arts of singing and writing were entwined.” Ayelet Tsabari finds her literary voice through the Yemeni Jewish tradition of musical storytelling. | Lit Hub Music
- Andrew C. McKevitt on how America turned weapons into a consumer commodity, from his Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Gun Country. | Lit Hub History
- “She will not let us have the happy ending we might prefer.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “No, Kilkenny has never seen a bride like me. I’m dressed all in scarlet. I have sewn two coins and a hazelnut into my hem, for wealth and luck.” Read from Molly Aitken’s novel, Bright I Burn. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Brave new world, indeed: When Aldous Huxley dropped acid. | JSTOR Daily
- “Claiming that A.I. can help get people published doesn’t make sense.” Laura Wheatman Hill digs into the NaNoWriMo AI kerfuffle. | Slate
- How Wilfrid Sheed’s novel Office Politics prepared Gerald Howard for a life of literature. | The New York Times
- How exiled Russian publishers release books Putin would ban. | NPR
- “We expect language to function in a very linear sense. One word comes after the other. One sentence after the other.” Helen Chazan on sequential bodies in comics. | The Comics Journal
- Hannah Proctor and Sarah Jaffe talk about grief, writing, and revolution. | The Baffler
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