Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2020
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1878, poet Adelaide Crapsey is born.
- Five years after the publication All American Boys its authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, kind of wish it would go out of print. | Lit Hub
- From mid-century British philology to twin-laden psychodrama, here are 11 great books you probably haven’t read. | Lit Hub
- “For a thing to be broken in white people’s mind means it includes blackness. Children, neighborhoods, schools.” Claudia Rankine gets directly to the truth in this conversation with Catherine Barnett. | Lit Hub Politics
- WATCH: Rhett Miller covers the great American songbook in part seven of our Mighty SONG Writers series. | Lit Hub Music
- “I am acutely aware that far more classical literature has disappeared than has survived.” Daniel Mendelsohn talks to John Freeman about Homer, the art of digression, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The Black Romantic poets played a key role in articulating African Americans’ relation to New World spaces, places, and homelands.” On Albert Allson Whitman, radical Black poet of the Reconstruction. | Lit Hub
- “Kindness, courage, love, tenderness—these are the qualities that so often saturate a person’s last days.” Why Dr. Rachel Clarke on facing the end of life every day. | Lit Hub
- New September books for your dangerously high TBR pile, as recommended by Lit Hub contributors. | Lit Hub
- Virginia Woolf once wondered if the lecture was nearing the end of its days; Mary Cappello takes up the very same question (and answers a resounding NO). | Lit Hub
- “Only a few sounds / came in to me out of the predawn darkness: / the scrapes of not one but two shovels, each scrape / with a tap at the end to knock off the snow, then / a word or two…” Poetry by Ted Kooser. | Lit Hub
- “The world of magic was integral to everyday life in these tales.” Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on the rich oral traditions the Ganda people.
- Paul Stephens on minimalist literature, concrete poetry, and the “one-word poem” boom of the late 1960s. | The MIT Press Reader
- Faint implications and pale delicacies: why The Age of Innocence is a masterclass in sexual tension. | The Guardian
- New Yorker staff writer and National Book Award winner Evan Osnos will publish a book on Joe Biden this October. | Simon & Schuster
- Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, and J.M. Barrie were all members of the 189-year-old Garrick Club in London, which does not allow women as members. One lingerie tycoon is trying to change that. | Daily Mail
- AJ Aronstein investigates the story of Elsie Conick, the first Black woman tennis player to appear on the cover of an American magazine. | Guernica
- “I don’t believe that you think what you do is worthless, my sister says. I don’t. I just mean financially worthless.” Eula Biss on teaching poetry and reading Faulkner. Oh, and money. | The Paris Review
- Guillaume Martin has an unusual resume: he has a master’s degree in philosophy, he has published a book that was acclaimed in France, and he is one of the best cyclists in the world. | VeloNews
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