Lit Hub Daily: September 3, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1860, Charles Dickens burns most of his private papers at his home in Kent, Gads Hill Place.
- “Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.” Mary Jo Salter on finding beauty and community in poetry. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Rachel Kushner takes the Lit Hub questionnaire (and tells us about throwing a Brett Easton Ellis novel across the room). | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Dive into fall with some verse! Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections by Raymond Antrobus, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kinsale Drake, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Amy Reading on artistic collaboration, egotistical male editors, and how Katharine S. White quietly shaped writers. | Lit Hub Craft
- Natalie Zutter recommends September’s sci-fi and fantasy, including post-apocalyptic epic Fantasy and speculative swashbucklers from Andrea Stewart, Catherynne M. Valente, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “There has always been this energy, back-of-the-store energy… Lethem has channeled that energy.” Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Rachel Kushner, Danzy Senna, and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. She writes radio plays and edits a magazine on the same subject.” Read from Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, If Only. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Indi Bains dives into the history of broadside ballads, the biggest bangers of the 17th century. | Atlas Obscura
- Patrick Autréaux on Annie Ernaux and the Nobel Prize: “When a work that wants to appear emancipatory achieves such institutional recognition, a great deal of discernment is required of the bearer to uphold the evacuating tempo of their voice.” | 3:AM
- On how Moleskine had everyone clamoring to trade their word processors for notebooks. | The Walrus
- Isabelle Rea considers the surreal landscapes of Teletubbies, Pingu, and other 90s children’s television. | The Paris Review
- Katherine Bucknell discusses biographizing Christopher Isherwood. | The Washington Post
- Who profits from the language of the internet? Unfortunately, not the people coining it. | Wired
