Lit Hub Daily: September 4, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1896, Antonin Artaud is born.
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Rachel Kushner about Creation Lake: “I often think of the world as merely the final outer dimension of novels, the substance that holds them in place.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Bryan VanDyke on grief, chatbots and the power of human memory: “The truth is, all things have endings; but nothing’s ever really lost, if we can remember it.” | Lit Hub Technology
- Iheoma Nwachukwu examines immigrant experiences and how diet and culinary heritage inform the way we speak. | Lit Hub Food
- On Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, Rudyard Kipling’s boundary-blurring satire of bureaucracy. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “As hunters and gatherers, we depended on this skill. Perhaps that’s why books and emails are so familiar.” Sharman Apt Russell on the pleasures of watching skunks. | Lit Hub Nature
- If meditation isn’t bringing you internal peace, maybe you should try a literary solution: poetry. | Lit Hub Craft
- Josephine Quinn on Arabic translations of Ancient Greek texts and how “the point of translating foreign works was not to preserve them but to build on them.” | Lit Hub History
- “Brett had once been, like Jane, a writer of that most doomed of genres, literary fiction.” Read from Danzy Senna’s novel, Colored Television. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Jameson showed how form and content, careful examination of the text and investigations of sociohistorical content, strictly linguistic and expansively political readings could also be related in a comprehensive Marxian approach.” On the work of literary critic Fredric Jameson. | Jacobin
- Marc Sobel unearths a forgotten Alan Moore comic. | The Comics Journal
- In praise of reference books: “Reference books are discontinuous expressions (assuming writers and editors are acting in good faith) of what is known or believed at the time they are published.” | Discourse
- How a writer connected the dots between literature and coding. | The Guardian
- On romance novels, algospeak, and the rise of the spicy book. | Shelf Love
- Fun fact of the day: At the Joanine Library in Coimbra, Portugal, colonies of bats keep the books safe from binding-hungry beetles and moths. | Atlas Obscura
- “‘The worst version of me would be writing about biracials in a respectful way,’ Senna told me. ‘I get to make fun of us incessantly.’” Julian Lucas profiles Danzy Senna. | The New Yorker
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