Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1883, poet and physician William Carlos Williams is born.
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Tony Tulathimutte tells us about loving Neon Genesis Evangelion, how he organizes his bookshelf, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Article continues after advertisement - Steven W. Thrasher explains why he won’t return to teaching this semester amid free speech crackdowns on university campuses. | Lit Hub Politics
- “When boys in the children’s room tried to check out picture books with mermaids or princesses, their parents told them to put them down because they were for girls.” Abi Maxwell on being a small town librarian while raising a trans child. | Lit Hub Libraries
- Don’t want to read every fall reading list? That’s okay. Emily Temple did it for you. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “It would be impossible to capture the true plurality of experiences of Black people in publishing in a series of topical essays, but shaping a neat narrative at the expense of the texture of truth won’t suffice.” Thomas Gebremedhin considers what the discourse around diversity in publishing misses. | Lit Hub Book News
- James Folta delivers 50 facts about The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (without making it a listicle). | Lit Hub Biography
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Rumaan Alam talks to Jane Ciabattari: “The fact of obscene wealth, and the disparity in wealth so prevalent in this country and the world over, should in fact make more of us crazy.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Tony Tulathimutte, Rumaan Alam, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Any shift to capitalism in the Soviet Union had to be understood as part of a longer political history.” Timothy Snyder on what the collapse of the Soviet Union meant to America. | Lit Hub History
- Rilla Askew on the benefits of publishing through a small press in a post-SPD world. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “The visitor sat at the table eating his little tangerine slices.” Read from Ariane Koch’s novel Overstaying, translated by Damion Searls. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Why Donatien Grau wrote a treatise about Los Angeles in Latin. | The New Yorker
- Anna Ballan examines the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis. | The Hedgehog Review
- “There will forever be a snake in the cake box.” Deborah Levy imagines the everyday in Freud’s Vienna. | The Paris Review
- Johannes Göransson considers the challenge of the body in translating literature. | Poetry
- Nicole Graev Lipson and Jerald Walker talk about hope, structure, and humor. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Diarmuid Hester asks why queer authors are writing about houses. | The Guardian
