Lit Hub Daily: September 20, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1878, Upton Sinclair is born.
- In episode two of The Lit Hub Podcast, Dan Sheehan and Huda Fakhreddine talk American campus repression, while James Folta gets into the mind of the man who added “LOL” to every sentence of In Search of Lost Time. | Lit Hub Radio
- “Access to reading materials is being stymied via policies that claim security.” Three incarcerated readers share their experiences with ebooks in prison. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Tell a child nothing, and she will become obsessed with knowledge.” Kim Liao explores her grandfather’s history as a freedom fighter and dissident in Taiwan. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Stephanie Duncan Smith on writing into the unknown: “If you’re struggling to frame what your book is about, listen to the tension and it will tell you.” | Lit Hub Craft
Article continues after advertisement - “The book cover enacts what the book itself does—it pushes back against the ‘totalizing aesthetic of Big Tech’ by resisting legibility at thumbnail size.” Linda Huang chronicles the collaborative process of designing the cover of Vauhini Vara’s Searches. | Lit Hub Design
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Sonia Purnell examines how Pamela Harriman defied stereotypes and expectations. | Lit Hub Biography
- Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement, Connie Chung’s Connie, and Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin and Takeuchi Mariko on how Japanese female photographers have defied exclusion to thrive in their medium. | Lit Hub Photography
- “Daniel is sitting in front of his computer. He wants to get up to turn down the thermostat—it’s too hot in here—but first he needs to complete the paragraph he’s writing.” Read from S.J. Naudé’s novel, Fathers and Fugitives. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Simon Reader makes a case for writing exercises. | Public Books
- Surveillance, family secrets, and trauma: Beth Raymer on listening to her parents’ divorce tapes. | The Cut
- Katie Ward on what she learned from her mentor, Hilary Mantel. | The Guardian
- Alexander Prescott-Couch considers Nietzsche’s use of philology to examine morality. | Aeon
- “It’s a remarkable achievement that forces readers to attend to the philosophical subtleties of Marx’s argument.” James Miller considers a new translation of Capital. | The New York Times
- Sean Tatol asks, what does it mean to make art in an age of gimmicks and artifice. | The Baffler
