Lit Hub Weekly: July 12 – 16

What Borges’ science fiction got right about the importance of forgetting, according to child psychiatry. | Lit Hub Science Searching for Moby-Dick (and the elusive truths of America’s pastime): Rick White goes deep on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the whaleness of Whiteyball. | Lit Hub Criticism “I said, ‘Oh, all right, but I’m not singing.’” Read an oral history of […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-07-17 10:30:33 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: July 12 – 16

What Borges’ science fiction got right about the importance of forgetting, according to child psychiatry. | Lit Hub Science Searching for Moby-Dick (and the elusive truths of America’s pastime): Rick White goes deep on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the whaleness of Whiteyball. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-07-17 10:30:33 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 12 – 16, 2019

“I annoy everyone around me by observing out loud what everyone already knows.” Sarah M. Broom on coming of age—and learning to see—in New Orleans. | Lit Hub Memoir Maggie Paxson on the French village that saved hundreds fleeing Nazi persecution. | Lit Hub History From Alexander Jessup to Anna... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-17 10:30:06 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: December 12-16, 2022

Behold the 103 best book covers of the year, as picked by the experts. | Lit Hub How much pain should we tolerate for publicity? Or, when your book tour is interrupted by a near-death experience. | Lit Hub Memoir How Paul McCartney responded to the Beatles’ slow but inevitable disintegration.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-17 11:30:31 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: May 16-20, 2022

“To live with other people is to be responsible for protecting them from your moods. Or perhaps, to protect the delicate gift of your moods from them.” Seema Reza on the joy of being (completely) alone. | Lit Hub Memoir Hilary A. Hallett investigates the romance genre’s radical roots, from... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-05-21 10:30:28 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: February 8 – 12, 2021

“Still, the best, most generative conversations mostly happen out of the public eye.” Wayne Miller on the hazards of talking poetry on social media. | Lit Hub As Gabriel Byrne watches his father’s decline, he wonders if it’s ever possible to be truly honest with himself. | Lit Hub Memoir “It... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Lit Hub Weekly: March 16 – 20, 2020

THESE TIMES: Lit Hub editor Jonny Diamond on literary community in a time of global pandemic • Ysabelle Cheung on trying to write in Hong Kong during the rise of the novel coronavirus • Italian editor Sara Reggiani on life in lock-down • How to support your local bookstores during the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-21 11:30:33 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: December 12, 2023

“Each of these portraits is, as advertised and expected, profoundly ‘humane.’” Gideon Lewis-Kraus recommends Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. | Lit Hub Criticism The 138 best book covers of 2023, as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. | Lit Hub Design... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-12-12 11:30:34 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 21-25, 2023

“Whatever has been invented, Le Guin teaches us, can be reinvented.” John Plotz revisits Earthsea. | Lit Hub Criticism Moeen Farrokhi on writing and humiliation under Iranian censorship: “I began to question the very act of writing itself.” | Lit Hub Memoir “No one needs my opinion about books.”... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-26 10:30:54 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: July 18, 2023

“Once I can’t rely on sight to write anymore, will I, like Borges, no longer be quite sure who is writing this page?” Andrew Leland on Jorge Luis Borges’ blindness and his own. | Lit Hub Memoir It’s a banger week for new books, starting with a new Whitehead. | The Hub Alfred J. Naddaff […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Lit Hub Weekly: April 17–21, 2023

“Pugilistic metaphors and hard-drinking aphorisms … a brittle misogyny and a vainglorious narcissism. And then there are all the dead animals.” David Barnes considers the baggage of Ernest Hemingway, 100 years after his first published work. | Lit Hub Criticism How language acquisition nourishes... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Lit Hub Daily: April 12, 2023

“What had I done, insisting on more of us?” Maggie Smith on the anxious, silent first year of motherhood. | Lit Hub Memoir We asked, you answered: Here are 22 (more) adaptations better than the books they’re based on. | Lit Hub Film & TV Naomi Kanakia on literary transphobia. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-12 10:30:47 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2023

Alexa Hagerty decodes the messages of trauma written in the skeletons of Argentina’s death flights victims. | Lit Hub History “Just when you think you’re about to get a thick and steamy anthology of what women want, we find the same censorship and control at play.” Is Gillian Anderson’s new... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Lit Hub Weekly: February 6-10, 2023

Booksellers from The Strand remember the coolest celebrity “cart shark” of them all: Television frontman Tom Verlaine. | Lit Hub Bookstores & Libraries Food as sustenance and political metaphor: How White House dinners shape presidential policy. | Lit Hub Politics “Will this book, like so... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-11 11:30:37 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: January 30-February 3, 2023

“Why I’m still on strike.” Olivia McGiff’s portraits from the HarperCollins picket line. | Lit Hub “Writers are read for how they write, not what they write about.” Henry Louis Gates Jr. on what makes a “classic” African American text. | Lit Hub Criticism How Jane Fonda somehow combined dance... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-04 11:30:51 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: October 31-November 4, 2022

Emily Temple rounds up the 60 greatest academic satires, campus novels, and boarding school bildungsromans of the last 100 years. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Lynn Caponera considers the wild and wonderful legacy of Maurice Sendak’s creations (and his rigorous work routine). | Lit Hub Art &... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-11-05 10:30:11 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: September 16, 2022

“It took months of OCD treatment and two Brené Brown books to understand there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in writing—there are only decisions.” Elissa Bassist reflects on treating her writers’ block by treating her OCD. | Lit Hub Memoir Sometimes, altering the canon is a good thing: How The Rings... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-09-16 10:30:58 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 8-12, 2022

Meeting language at its most elemental place: Belinda Huijuan Tang reflects on re-learning Chinese. | Lit Hub Memoir What do animals understand about death? | Lit Hub Science “When people try too hard to pin it down, they often ruin everything that makes poetry magical.” Chris Martin on poetry,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-08-13 10:30:45 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Weekly: August 1-5, 2022

Ella Risbridger muses on the pain-writing-money trifecta, Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, and memoir as fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism Lulu Miller in praise of “the uncrushable beetle.” | Lit Hub Nature How Kiki de Montparnasse, a muse with a mind of her own, “essentially invented the idea of making an... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2022-08-06 10:30:41 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: July 29, 2022

“The US immigration system knows I am here. I shudder to think where my information is stored within the government apparatus and for what purpose.” Luz Aguirre on living as an undocumented American. | Lit Hub Memoir The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August, from the Sandman... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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