Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2021

TODAY: In 1967, Carson McCullers dies at 50 in Nyack, New York.   

• “Wheresoever I go I can never leave the earth alone.” Frances Hodgson Burnett really, really loved gardens. | Lit Hub

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• “Her attitude was: ‘I write from the Black experience, but I aim for the human heart.’” Talking to Maya Angelou’s son about the new award named in her honor. | Lit Hub

• Timothy Morton muses on hyperspace, the field beyond the speed of light, and how it relates to stream-of-consciousness narratives. | Lit Hub Science

• The eyes have it in the 13 best book covers of September. | Lit Hub

• “When most of the people at these meetings could no longer read, how would they know if I’d told their story properly at all?” Jon McGregor on learning about aphasia at the local support group. | Lit Hub

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• Alice Bell retraces the failed utopian promise of fossil-fueled abundance. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Lucy Ellman talks matriarchy, Jane Austen, and the “brave weird concoction” of ­Moby-Dick. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• New titles by Joy Harjo, Winfred Rembert, and Dawn Turner feature among September’s best reviewed memoirs and biographies. | Book Marks

• Darcy Coates takes a look at eight novels that twist our idea of the home into something terrifying. | CrimeReads

• Anika T. Prather discusses the role of the classics in struggles for racial equality, and makes the case for their continued relevance for Black students. | The Point

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• “For many of her readers, Hejinian has managed to alter what we think of as a life.” Jessica Fisher on Lyn Hejinian’s “allegorical activism.” | Public Books

• Anita Hill discusses her new book and the systemic issues that helped secure Justice Clarence Thomas’ appointment. | NPR

• Wang Ping considers the vital impact of Doris Lessing and the meaning of freedom. | The Offing

• Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on her new collection and being a debut author at 50. | The New York Times

• “I think we’re seeing a great falling apart, a great fracturing and fragmentation.” Chuck Palahniuk talks to Kathryn Borel about writing in the internet age and more. | The Believer

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• Kevin Sanchez reflects on what Banned Books Week means for Texas school districts embroiled in controversy over classroom reading materials. | San Antonio Current

Also on Lit Hub: Pico Iyer on the deep pleasure of Handel’s chorale music • How the culture of the university covers up abuse • Read from Lucy Corin’s latest novel, The Swank Hotel

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