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Lit Hub Daily: August 11, 2021

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

August 11, 2021  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

“Hate speech renders dialogue impossible.”

August 11, 2021  By Siri Hustvedt   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

Daniel LoPilato on Greg Egan’s Diaspora and the Limits of Literary Realism

August 11, 2021  By Daniel LoPilato   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

Kyle Beachy Digs Into the Mysteries of Existence

August 11, 2021  By Kyle Beachy   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  Sports 
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How to Say Goodbye: Cecily Strong’s Eulogy For Her Beloved Cousin Owen

The Saturday Night Live Cast Member Honors the Joyous Life of a Late Family Member

August 11, 2021  By Cecily Strong   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

Eleanor Henderson Recommends Work by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Sarah Manguso, and More

August 11, 2021  By Eleanor Henderson   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Health  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

Angel Khoury Considers What It Means to Evoke a Place

August 11, 2021  By Angel Khoury   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Remembering the Artists Who Were Among the Early Victims of Nazi Death Camps

Charlie English on Hitler’s Gesamtkunstwerk and the Murder of Psychiatric Populations

August 11, 2021  By Charlie English   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  History  News and Culture 
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What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

Kit Mackintosh Goes Deep into the Sub-Culture of Brooklyn Drill

August 11, 2021  By Kit Mackintosh   Posted In  Features  Memoir  Music  News and Culture 
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Mary Ruefle on How Art Exploded Her World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

August 11, 2021  By Thresholds    Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Thresholds 
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Nghi Vo, Shelley Parker-Chan, and Stephanie Ybarra on Interrogating the Canon of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

August 11, 2021  By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre    Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre 
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On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

August 11, 2021  By NewberyTart    Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  NewberyTart 
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Emily Oster: In Praise of Parenting with Data

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

August 11, 2021  By Keen On   Posted In  Features  Keen On  The Virtual Book Channel 
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Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Commodification of Blackness, in Publishing and Beyond

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

August 11, 2021  By Reading Women   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Reading Women 
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan, Read by Essie Davis

A Powerhouse Performance

August 11, 2021  By Behind the Mic    Posted In  Behind the Mic  Features  Lit Hub Radio 
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The Manningtree Witches

A.K. Blakemore

August 11, 2021  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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These are the best short stories to read around a campfire.

August 10, 2021  By Katie Yee   Posted In  Reading Lists  The Hub 
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After a month of major controversies, the American Booksellers Association has responded.

August 10, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Book News  Bookstores and Libraries  News and Culture  Politics  The Hub 
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A new poll shows that most readers organize their bookshelves . . . completely randomly.

August 10, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Design  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Take a look at Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a Swedish edition of The Hobbit.

August 10, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Art and Photography  History  News and Culture  The Hub 
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