Lit Hub Daily: September 13, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1830, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is born.
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Introducing the Lit Hub Podcast, where host Drew Broussard gets the inside scoop from the Lit Hub staff. | Lit Hub
Article continues after advertisement - What do we want? More old people in literature! Anna Johnston on how to write aging characters without valorizing youth. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “It is about remembering the fear or wrongness that you felt in your body.” Brian Evenson on developing the language of horror. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Even when the alternative was hunger, few human beings have ever been eager to exchange their freedom and dignity for an hourly wage.” Ben Ehrenreich on the riots of northern England, then and now. | Lit Hub History
- Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything, Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legend, and Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Behind the Door all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Daisy Hernández reflects back on how an immigrant childhood influenced language: “I knew from my own experience that being seen is a powerful way to be loved.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Read “Theories of Influence,” a poem by Anselm Berrigan from the collection Don’t Forget to Love Me: “I do not know how I got through the first / day after the storm but recall that during / the night, doubting what I had seen.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- Dylan C. Penningroth on the hidden story of Black history, from his Cundill Prize-shortlisted Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. | Lit Hub History
- “He still wished for stability, which surprised him. Prison, for all its horrors, offered certainty as indisputable as the stone and metal.” Read from Cebo Campbell’s novel, Sky Full of Elephants. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Nic Cavell examines literature of Uyghur persecution and liberation. | Dissent
- “It’s not that climate fiction should huddle under sci-fi’s umbrella. It’s the other way around.” On what it means to label sci-fi as climate fiction. | Reactor
- Considering two recent memoirs of Palestine. | New York Review of Books
- Win McCormack tried to figure out who, exactly, is the Machiavelli of American politics. | The New Republic
- “The Black experience will always resist compilation.” Doreen St. Felix considers the language of Black identity. | The New Yorker
- Lessons from a 4,000-year-old Babylonian cookbook. | Atlas Obscura
