Lit Hub Daily: September 3, 2021

TODAY: In 2001, Pauline Kael, American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, dies at 82.  

• “If woman writer behaved like J.D. Salinger, chances are she would be maligned as neglectful, monstrous.” Olivia Campbell explores what it takes to balance art and motherhood in America. | Lit Hub Parenting

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• The Literary Film and TV You Should Stream in September includes Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Romeo + Juliet, the 1990 It, and more. | Lit Hub TV

• Olivia Rutigliano considers Hollywood’s archetype of academia in light of The Chair, which captures a professoriate “in the middle of a flaming crisis.” | Lit Hub TV

• Kaia Alderson recommends seven books to learn more about the Black women who served in the Women’s Army Corp during WWII. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Daniel A. Gross digs into the business of library e-books. | The New Yorker

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• “Loving a thing and demonstrating, performing, displaying your love for that thing—these things can be decoupled.” Molly Templeton considers reading slumps. | Tor

• How do you go back to teaching in the midst of grief? | Catapult

• Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses identity, queer relationships, and the intersections of geopolitical and interpersonal violence. | Shondaland

• Lee Lai talks about queer child care, the importance of breakups, and the peach-walnut dichotomy. | Hazlitt

• A new book digs into how the field of publishing has faced down the “great technological revolution of our time.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

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• Leah Drayton looks at the Green Book, published in 1937, that helped Black travelers safely navigate New York City. | Gothamist

Also on Lit Hub: Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi • Interview with an indie press: Biblioasis • Read a story from Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa

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