Lit Hub Daily: September 2, 2021

• “Art doesn’t care about endings, but we do.” Danielle Lazarin navigates the ambiguous loss of (maybe) not selling her novel. | Lit Hub

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• Joy Castro recounts stumbling across the “riveting, brilliant, and shimmeringly weird” work of modernist writer Margery Latimer. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “I want to understand how exactly Jewishness is imprinted on me. What exactly is it that I have inherited?” Deborah Feldman on doubt and the rules of Jewish identity. | Lit Hub Religion

• Ron Charles on Lauren Groff’s Matrix, Dwight Garner on Colm Tóibín’s The Magician, Laura Miller on Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Christopher McGinley celebrates the artistic formalism underpinning The French Connection. | CrimeReads

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• WATCH: Yiyun Li talks to Alexandra Schwartz about War and Peace · Mike Duncan talks to Andrew Keen about defending liberty and equality. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• Kyle Chayka considers how the fashion brand Uniqlo is Sally Rooneycore. | Dirt

• “I could see that this was my next book because it was dealing with a lot of the ideas that I really wanted to wrestle with, about power and God, about climate change.” Lauren Groff on her new novel, her research process, and trying to create during the pandemic. | Kirkus

• Julietta Singh unpacks rejecting colonial narratives and “motherhood at the end of the world.” | The Paris Review

• Kia Corthron contemplates creativity, grief, and finishing a novel as the world turned upside-down. | Seven Stories

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• María Amparo Escandón talks about writing the stories of families and climate disasters and the “new reality” of wildfires in California. | Los Angeles Times

• Emanuela Grama looks at the Old Town neighborhood in Bucharest as a window to the city’s history. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Roxanne Fequiere dives into the literary references on The Chair. | Vulture

Also on Lit Hub: On extremism, violence, and the words we use to foster division • Nancy Marie Brown considers Valkyries and history as interpretation • Read from Atticus Lish’s latest novel, The War for Gloria