Lit Hub Daily: September 16, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1987, Beloved is published.
- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers on consent, power, and age gaps in queer relationships. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Tracking the ongoing fight against creeping fascism in American schools: “The ultimate goal is to justify a takeover of the institutions, transforming them into weapons in the war against the very idea of multi-racial democracy.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “But there is no truth. There is only why. And when we look closer we see that behind that why is just another tapestry.” Richard Flanagan on visiting the site of a Japanese internment camp. | Lit Hub History
- Nicholas Delbanco remembers the living and dead literary luminaries that passed through the Bennington Writing Workshops. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Stuart A. Reid on the impact of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, from his Cundill Prize-shortlisted The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination. | Crime Reads
- “Before we were born, the land our parents worked in Illinois had value.” Read from Nora Lange’s new novel, Us Fools. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Alexander Manshel on trends in historical fiction literature, and the trap of representing the past. | The Nation
- On retranslating Marx’s Capital: “the language of Capital has become as memorable as its message.” | Jacobin
- This one’s for the cinephiles: Pedro Almodóvar wrote a book. | The New York Times
- “I think this is the third time I’ve read My Dead Book and I’m finally getting a grip on what kind of machine his writing is.” Eileen Myles on the work of Nate Lippens. | The Paris Review
- Emily Zarevich on why L. M. Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill is like “the forgotten child of a celebrity.” | JSTOR Daily
- Did Ian Fleming base James Bond on a guy named Biffy? Yeah. | The Independent
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