Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1898, Stephane Mallarme dies.
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Cat Marnell and Anne Marie Tendler talk about self-doubt, hospitals, and living on your own terms. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Article continues after advertisement - Dunya Mikhail on why translating her own work gives her “a wider space to understand it more deeply and to diagnose its flaws.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Alex Trimble Young considers the very modern consumer fantasy of gun ownership as a path to empowerment. | Lit Hub Politics
- Roland Allen explores the cross-cultural evolution of the notebook (and the history of jotting things down). | Lit Hub History
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Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign: “The quietness… forces readers to reckon with the intricacies of deaf people as people.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Rebecca L. Davis examines battles over book bans, Drag Queen Story Hour, and the censorship of visible queerness in American history. | Lit Hub Politics
- Lauren Benton on how localized conflicts sparked imperial violence across the globe, from her Cundill Prize-shortlisted They Called It Peace. | Lit Hub History
- “On the night before the Malian swordsmen swept into Òṣogùn, chanting, ‘God is great, God is great, God is great,’ as they laid waste to the town and corralled its inhabitants into barracoons…” Read from Biyi Bandele’s novel, Yoruba Boy Running. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Considering the enduring legacy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as it turns 20. | The Guardian
- “Being very online had prepared Manning for war.” On Chelsea Manning and the trans internet. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- How close are we to discovering lost ancient texts? Maybe closer than we think. | Works in Progress
- “Sex worker memoirs seldom make literary careers or appear on “best of” lists due to lingering queasiness over the subject matter and the bourgeois sensibilities of the publishing industry.” On Charlotte Shane and sex work memoirs. | The Baffler
- Kevin Claiborne discusses writing with mixed media: “I’m interested in how the layering of text and image can create or disrupt tension, structure, rhythm, perception, and interpretation.” | Asymptote
- Samantha Schweblin guides your literary tour through Buenos Aires (translated by Megan McDowell). | The New York Times
