Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2021

TODAY: In 1976, the Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the lead roles.  

• “We are the chosen black artists, taking up temporary residency in places where white people can afford to slow down, breathe, stay for good.” Jill Louise Busby on the problem(s) of the writing residency industrial complex. | Lit Hub

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• Annabel Abbs considers the legacy of women hikers who blazed their own trails, and the landscapes that shaped them. | Lit Hub Nature

• On the young Indigenous basketball players who challenged colonial hegemony in Montana—and became world champions. | Lit Hub Sports

• How Amanita Muscaria, the real-life mushroom we know from Disney movies, earned its fame. | Lit Hub Nature

• Jemma Wadham recounts an expedition across the “mysterious, inhospitable white void” of Antarctica. | Lit Hub Travel

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• “The higher one evinces traits stereotypically associated with femininity, the greater one’s chances of ending up with a personality disorder.” Jonathan Foiles on what we get wrong about BPD. | Lit Hub Health

• Brandon Taylor on Sally Rooney, Dale Peck on Andrew Sullivan, Frank Guan on Jonathan Franzen, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• “It was accepted wisdom back then that nothing could kill book sales quicker than stringing together the words Northern and Ireland.” Stuart Neville on regionalism, publishing, and standing up to censorship. | CrimeReads

• “The deeper you go you start to wonder if he’s actually gaslighting himself.” Dale Peck considers Andrew Sullivan’s body of work. | The Baffler

• “It will hate bunk.” Read The New Yorker’s original prospectus. | Gothamist

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• Joy Harjo discusses her new memoir, Native history, and her childhood reading habits. | NPR

• Isaac Fitzgerald takes a walk on Fire Island with Robert Moor. | Walk It Off

• Why are news reporters so skilled at writing crime novels? | Inside Hook

• As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, new books are taking stock of geopolitical events since then. | Christian Science Monitor

• These ten books take on long-distance relationships. | The Guardian

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Also on Lit Hub: 7 novels for living out your cottagecore fantasies • María Amparo Escandón on becoming a student of LA • Read a story from Ye Chun’s debut collection, Hao

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