Lit Hub Daily: December 9, 2020

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

December 9, 2020  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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A New Story By Rachel Kushner:
“The Mayor of Leipzig”

"I personally know the author of this story you’re reading."

December 9, 2020  By Rachel Kushner   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Short Story 
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On Bourbon, Books, and Writing Your Way Out of Small-Town America

Wright Thompson Considers What It Means to Find Your Craft

December 9, 2020  By Wright Thompson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Edith Vonnegut on the Love Letters of Kurt and Jane Vonnegut

"Jane recognized her husband’s tremendous talent and put her own dreams and ambitions aside."

December 9, 2020  By Edith Vonnegut   Posted In  Art and Photography  Biography  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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What Jeffrey Sterling Wants Americans to Understand About Whistleblowers

From the The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

December 9, 2020  By The Quarantine Tapes   Posted In  Features  Lit Hub Radio  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics  The Quarantine Tapes 
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The Bounce Song That Launched a Thousand Bounce Songs

Big Freedia Remembers MC T. Tucker's "Where Dey At?"

December 9, 2020  By Big Freedia   Posted In  Features  Memoir  Music  News and Culture 
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On Struggling with Drug Addiction and the System of Incarceration

Chris Dennis: "The war on drugs is also a war on the poor, and the addicted, and the mentally ill."

December 9, 2020  By Chris Dennis   Posted In  Features  History  Memoir  News and Culture  Politics 
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How KISS Became a Rock & Roll Phenomenon

Doug Brod on the Haphazard Success of One of
America's Greatest Bands

December 9, 2020  By Doug Brod   Posted In  Biography  Features  History  Music  News and Culture 
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The Fight for Conservatism Today

Edmund Fawcett in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

December 9, 2020  By Keen On   Posted In  Features  Keen On  Lit Hub Radio  Politics 
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WATCH: Reyna Grande in Conversation with John Freeman

The Distance Between Us, as Featured on Alta's California Book Club

December 9, 2020  By The Virtual Book Channel   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  In Conversation  News and Culture  Politics  The Virtual Book Channel 
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How Textiles Made the World

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

December 9, 2020  By New Books Network   Posted In  Features  History  Lit Hub Radio  New Books Network 
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The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
on Paul Celan

Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard Consider the Texture of Language, Poetics, and Linguistic Dispossession

December 9, 2020  By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  History  Memoir  News and Culture  On Translation 
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How a Nun Accidentally Led Allen Ginsberg’s Biographer to the Poet’s Work

Michael Schumacher in Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

December 9, 2020  By Otherppl with Brad Listi   Posted In  Biography  Features  Lit Hub Radio  News and Culture  Otherppl with Brad Listi 
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The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2020

Featuring Nicole Krauss, Stephen King, Emma Cline, Zora Neale Hurston, and more

December 9, 2020  By Book Marks   Posted In  Features  Literary Criticism  News and Culture 
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Big Girl, Small Town

Michelle Gallen

December 9, 2020  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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An Interview with Shayna Small, Narrator of Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Celebrating the Best 2020 Audiobooks for Children

December 9, 2020  By Behind the Mic    Posted In  Behind the Mic  Features  Lit Hub Radio 
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I tried “the Netflix of books.” It was not the Netflix of books.

December 8, 2020  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Here are the recipients of the 2021 Creative Capital Awards.

December 8, 2020  By Rasheeda Saka   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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William Shakespeare has officially been vaccinated.

December 8, 2020  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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Okayama City libraries let patrons sterilize their books with the power of UV light.

December 8, 2020  By Walker Caplan   Posted In  News and Culture  The Hub 
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