
LitHub Daily: February 1, 2016
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- What it means to reveal emotional truth in a historical novel: on the stories we tell to make sense of the past. | Literary Hub
- “Could I offer the world something so useful and beautiful?” Sarah Manguso confronts her writerly envy. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- Leanne Shapton provides seven cultural highlights, from beautiful, poetic writing to the perfect underwear. | The Guardian
- The first indies of 2016: 41 books put out by small presses last month. | Entropy
- Poetic coffee sleeves, short story vending machines, and literary train tickets: On the guerilla tactics being implemented to promote reading. | The Atlantic
- In which Jenny Diski imagines writing a book of the words she has lost to aging and chemotherapy. | Berfrois
- Maya Angelou’s century-old Harlem brownstone, home to numerous bookshelves and a summer fruit-inspired living room, is for sale. | The New York Times
- When you take a stroll through the territory of children’s literature, you’d better know where the land mines are buried: On the racism present in many books for young readers. | The Daily Beast
- Nature is always in capital and capitalism is always in nature: On Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life. | The New Inquiry
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