Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

May 14, 2021  By Book Marks   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Fun fact: Courtney Love read Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” for her Mickey Mouse Club audition.

May 14, 2021  By Dan Sheehan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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“I have walked through many lives”: Listen to Stanley Kunitz read his poem “The Layers.”

May 14, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Evelyn Waugh’s twelve-bedroom house—complete with party barn—is now for sale.

May 14, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  History  News and Culture  The Hub  Travel 
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This surreal seaside library will transport you into the clouds.

May 14, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Design  News and Culture  The Hub  Travel 
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Here’s a wild story about a publishing scam that includes Morgan Freeman and 9/11.

May 14, 2021  By Jessie Gaynor   Posted In  The Hub 
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Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water.

May 14, 2021  By Emily Temple   Posted In  History  The Hub 
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Raven Leilani has won the Dylan Thomas Prize.

May 14, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Events  News and Culture  The Hub 
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John Lithgow on performing William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow.

May 14, 2021  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  Book News  Events  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2021

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

May 14, 2021  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Tobias Carroll Rereads M. John Harrison, an Under-Recognized Master

May 14, 2021  By Tobias Carroll   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

Phyllis Richardson on the Manors, Rectories, and Cottages That Influenced Austen's Domestic Writing

May 14, 2021  By Phyllis Richardson   Posted In  Biography  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Literary Criticism 
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How an Irish Barman Created a Home for New York’s Literary Elite

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack on Her Family Legacy

May 14, 2021  By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture 
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Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

A. J. Gnuse on Our Misplaced Fear of the Gothic

May 14, 2021  By A. J. Gnuse   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture 
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A Brief History of the New York Times Wedding Announcements

Cate Doty on the Evolution of a Society Mainstay

May 14, 2021  By Cate Doty   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Style 
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Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

May 14, 2021  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Film and TV  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text

May 14, 2021  By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  On Translation 
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Nathan Bomey: Political Unity Isn’t the Goal

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

May 14, 2021  By Keen On   Posted In  Features  Keen On  Lit Hub Radio  Politics 
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Chasing the Hollywood Dream:
A Reading List

Katherine St. John and Books That Bring Celebrity to Life

May 14, 2021  By Katherine St. John   Posted In  Features  Film and TV  News and Culture  Reading Lists 
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Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

The Author of Everybody Discusses Power and Freedom

May 14, 2021  By Olivia Laing   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  News and Culture  Politics 
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