Lit Hub Daily: September 26, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1936, editor, scholar, literary critic, and poet Harriet Monroe dies. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine.
- Jedediah Berry on the improvisation, spontaneity, and what writers can learn from playing Dungeons & Dragons. | Lit Hub Craft
- Nicole Kobie explains why humanity (probably) won’t be fighting wars against robots anytime soon. | Lit Hub Technology
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Isabella Hammad’s TBR list, featuring Enrique Vila-Matas, Dinaw Mengestu, Hussein Barghouthi, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - Andrea Long Chu on Sally Rooney, Jia Tolentino on Tony Tulathimutte, and more of the book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “And I’m here to tell you that being an expert at something provides just about no insight when you find yourself ‘on the other side.’” Maris Kreizman considers the anxiety of finally publishing a book after years of covering them. | Lit Hub Craft
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How the iconic Village Voice Bookshop in Paris launched lit mags and hosted the likes of John Strand, Kathy Acker, and Ricardo Mosner. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- With the season of big books comes the season of big book covers. These are the best of September. | Lit Hub Design
- “He trusted nothing civilization had to offer, and had long been desperate to flee it.” Abbott Kahler tells a tale of alternative medicine and emotional manipulation on the eve of Nazi takeover. | Lit Hub History
- On addiction, recovery, and contending with the duality of fentanyl as “good medicine and a very bad drug…” | Lit Hub Health
- “The house was like an ornate hedgehog when she looked at it from a safe distance.” Read from Meg Pokrass’s story collection, First Law of Holes. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jordan Kisner talks to Sigrid Nunez about animals, Virginia Woolf, and finding her voice. | Pioneer Works
- Make love, not war: Matthew Wills on the pacifist, anarchist politics of The Joy of Sex author Alex Comfort. | JSTOR Daily
- On translating Heian woman poets: “It is remarkable how neither of these court ladies are known by their real names—as per Heian custom.” | Asymptote
- Dennis Wilson Wise examines and revisits questions of Tolkien criticism. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “We like to say that everybody who identifies as a fan who’s coming through our doors has their own Emily Dickinson.” How a TV show brought fans (and the unexpected) to Emily Dickinson’s house. | Atlas Obscura
- Emma Spector considers the unbearable lightness of being (a Sally Rooney character). | Vogue
