Lit Hub Daily: September 19, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1818, Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore, telling him he has completed the first Canto of Don Juan.
- Jessica Pishko recommends 11 essential works on extremism to understand the far-right “Constitutional Sheriff” movement. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- 7 writers and editors on why they think The Chicago Manual of Style is “a testament to the art of textual precision.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Are you the “literary asshole” if you really don’t want to hang out with your fans? Kristen Arnett has the answer. | Lit Hub
- “She refuses silence and crafts stories so searing they cannot be buried or ignored.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “The delight of being lunar or of being allowed creatureliness and unruliness!” Emilie Menzel talks to Diana Khoi Nguyen about unfolding and depicting animals in poetry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How constructed is romance, after all? On the integral role of love in both literature and life. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Read “Raft,” a poem by Ted Kooser from the collection Raft: “At the said-to-be bottomless pond \ at the sand pit, the raft we discovered / was a heavy barn door, maybe ten feet.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “The last time I saw my father I was seven, and I don’t remember much about his leaving. But I do remember the last time I heard from him.” Read from Esinam Bediako’s novel, Blood on the Brain. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “A symptom is a way of thinking. Remembering is a way of thinking.” Notes on Herman Melville by writer and psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas. | The Paris Review
- Roxane Gay explores the history of the ongoing political assault against Haitian Americans. | The New Yorker
- “What we hardly talk about is how we’ve reorganized not just industrial activity but any activity to be capturable by computer, a radical expansion of what can be mined.” Thea Lim on the collapse of self-worth in the digital age. | The Walrus
- Helen Phillips talks to Arturo Vidich about different visions of the future. | The Millions
- Are college students struggling more with reading? Maybe. | Teen Vogue
- “I didn’t study English; I didn’t study music. So, in some ways, I’m self-taught.” Gregg LaGambina interviews PJ Harvey. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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