Literary Hub

TODAY: In 1998, journalist and author Dorothy West dies.

“Am I a writer first, or a grocer?” Karleigh Frisbie Brogan explains how working a non-literary day job helped her writing. | Lit Hub Craft
On the artistic transformations of Constantine Cavafy, the most influential poetic voice in modern Greek literature. | Lit Hub Biography
Noah Giansiracusa on how data dominates every facet of our lives (and how we can reclaim our humanity). | Lit Hub Technology
On 65 years of Green Eggs and Ham and how we handle the complex legacy of Theodor Geisel. | Lit Hub Criticism
“I found in their poetics an understanding of the “outside”: the gender outside, the class outside of mainstream culture and mainstream writing.” Roberto Bedoya on Norma Cole and the poetics of place. | Poetry
Beloved bother: Hannah Engler considers her connection to her great-uncle and the unexpected power of a typo. | Longreads
“Fascists will not stop us from drawing what must be drawn, from expressing what we believe in.” Look inside an iconic comics and zine festival in Rome. | The Comics Journal
“Research, writing, and, above all, thinking have always meant more than simply producing an answer.” Dan Rockmore on what it’s like to brainstorm with A.I. | The New Yorker
Jennifer Zacharia reports on the murder of Anas al-Sharif, and Israel’s war on Palestinian journalists. | Boston Review
“Her work moves between the ongoing catastrophe of American poverty and a sense of unabashed astonishment, an unrelenting obsession with the stars.” Joshua Bennett writes an elegy to Nikki Giovanni. | Poetry
“The scenes of prison break from Khiam to Sednaya offer us a glimpse into a possible, yet precarious freedom.” The trajectory of prison liberation and abolition across the Middle East. | The Baffler
“After the disastrous meeting, he began asking around about where an original golden ticket from the 1971 Willy Wonka movie, a highly valuable collector’s item, could be pawned.” What do crypto bros have to do with Ronald Dahl? It’s a (really) wild story. | New York Magazine
Riley MacLeod plays Tiny Bookshop, a bookstore management simulation game. | Aftermath
“A chasm that those who have crossed must spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with”: Aaron Labaree considers the genre of class transition in books by Claire Baglin, Annie Ernaux, and Éduoard Louis. | Public Books
Anne Lamott talks to Pamela Alma Weymouth about hope, the pain that leads to change, and “action as a verb.” | The Nation
Ali Ghanim, a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist living in the US, remembers Anas Al-Sharif as a friend. | The Intercept
Eighty years after the atomic bomb, Rachel Greenley contemplates narrative, omission, and the ethics of turning life into art. | Orion
Laura Miller explores how Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny took over TikTok (and the bestseller list). | Slate
Nolan Kelly watches two cinematic adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels: “Of course, you have to cast someone.” | Los Angeles Review of Books