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Lit Hub Daily: October 17, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-october-17-2024/
Published: October 17, 2024 10:30
Cundill Prize Finalist Kathleen DuVal recommends essential books for understanding Native American history  by David Treuer, Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Are you the asshole if youâre annoyed by a writer friend whoâŚ
Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History
https://lithub.com/five-essential-books-for-understanding-native-american-history/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:56
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most histories of the United States either completely ignored Native Americans or depicted them as primitive and wild, as obstacles to European and white American settlement. In the second half of theâŚ
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
https://lithub.com/5-book-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-10-17-2024/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:56
Our fivesome of fabulous reviews this week includes Naomi Fry on Melania Trumpâs Melania, Adam Sternbergh on Charles Baxterâs Blood Test, Andrea Long Chu on Isabella Hammadâs Recognizing the Stranger, Parul Sehgal on Ta-Nehisi Coatesâ The Message, andâŚ
Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women
Published: October 17, 2024 08:56
You might know Sanora Babb as the wife of the Academy Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe. She also had many tantalizing affairs with the likes of Ralph Ellison and Harry Stetson (yes, of the hats). And young writers like William Saroyan andâŚ
It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Published: October 17, 2024 08:56
Hello and welcome back to Am I the Literary Asshole? Iâm your host, Kristen Arnett, and Iâm still cleaning up hurricane debris. A giant tree fell in our backyard and itâs taken days to try and get some work done on it. Thatâs not a joke, but you know what?âŚ
Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country
https://lithub.com/belonging-somewhere-else-too-seven-books-on-making-a-home-in-a-new-country/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:55
When I first came to the US from the northeast of Brazil for college, I fell in love with a little cottage on the edge of campus. The house they put me in was supposedly nicer, with a shiny thermostat in each room and an all-white bathroom, but it felt tooâŚ
What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power
https://lithub.com/what-the-story-of-richard-ii-and-henry-iv-reveals-about-the-nature-of-power/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:55
Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke were first cousins, born in 1367 just three months apart. They were ten years old when Richard became king of England. They were thirty-two when, in 1399, Henry overthrew him to become king in his place. It wasâŚ
âYou Canât Leave Your Folk at the Door.â On Queer Life in Appalachia
https://lithub.com/you-cant-leave-your-folk-at-the-door-on-queer-life-in-appalachia/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:55
Elandria Williams ¡ they/them, 34 years old Anitsalagi (Cherokee), Sâatsoyaha (Yuchi), and Miccosukee lands ¡ Knoxville, Tennessee ¡ interviewed on August 11, 2013 I first met Elandria, also known as E, in 2012 through the STAY Project. Over the nextâŚ
To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy
https://lithub.com/to-fund-or-not-to-fund-on-redefining-what-type-of-work-is-grant-worthy/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:55
In December of 2018, my department chair sent the Writing Department faculty an email saying she expected each of us to apply for a summer research grant from the university, and so I decided to come up with a writing project that would require funding. IâŚ
Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language
https://lithub.com/anne-curzan-on-our-changing-language/
Published: October 17, 2024 08:01
Linguist, writer, and professor Anne Curzan joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how language is constantly changingâand how thatâs okay. Curzan talks about how, in her work as an English language historian, sheâs learned thatâŚ
Here are the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize.
https://lithub.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2024-kirkus-prize/
Published: October 17, 2024 01:00
At a ceremony in New York City this evening, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize, given annual in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readersâ literature. âThis yearâs prize-winning booksâeach written with eleganceâŚ
Lit Hub Daily: October 16, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-october-16-2024/
Published: October 16, 2024 10:30
âAmericans are never shown what it actually looks like when a US drone strike hits a wedding party, or a child is crushed by a US tank.â Noam Chomsky on the horrors America hides as it wages war. | Lit Hub Politics Mosab Abu Tohaâs reading list, featuringâŚ
The Power and Possibility of Play: Why Science Is More Than Just Facts and Equations
Published: October 16, 2024 08:56
For many people, their exposure to science is limited to classes in high school and maybe a couple huge introductory science courses if they went to college. Students often leave these experiences with the impression that science is all about memorizingâŚ
Brittany Rogers on How Libraries Helped Her Feel Safe and Embrace Her Queerness
https://lithub.com/brittany-rogers-on-how-libraries-helped-her-feel-safe-and-embrace-her-queerness/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:56
By 2010, nearly every librarian on the east side of Detroit knew me by first and last name. Knapp Branch where the edge of Detroit and Hamtramck kiss. Franklin Branch, the only one in walking distance. Lincoln and Wilderâboth on the east side of the city.âŚ
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-on-how-america-sanitizes-the-horror-of-its-wars/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:56
The basic principles of contemporary American strategy were laid out during World War II. As the war came to its end, American planners were well aware that the United States would emerge as the dominant power in the world, holding a hegemonic positionâŚ
The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next
https://lithub.com/the-annotated-nightstand-what-mosab-abu-toha-is-reading-now-and-next/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:55
In his powerful and harrowing essay in the New Yorker about his attempts to evacuate Gaza and subsequent during Israelâs devastating bombardment that has now continued for over a year, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha describes the needless humiliationsâŚ
Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience
https://lithub.com/language-loss-and-nostalgia-on-growing-old-as-a-learning-experience/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:55
There it is: the moment when I find myself thigh-deep in the squelch of memory, feet held fast, thrashing about for the word that eludes me. No amount of effort enables me to take a step forward, back, to the side, anywhere I might gain a fresh perspectiveâŚ
The (Unwanted) Sex Lives of Married Women: Seven Books About Complicated Desire
https://lithub.com/the-unwanted-sex-lives-of-married-women-seven-books-about-complicated-desire/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:55
The most violating sex I ever had happened in the one place where even today, after seven years of #MeToo-fueled inquiries, few would ever look: in my marriage. I didnât always loathe having sex with my husband. And over fourteen years of marriage, theâŚ
No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference
https://lithub.com/no-human-is-an-island-on-fiction-as-a-way-of-connecting-across-difference/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:55
Maybe all fourteen year-olds feel like they are living on an islandâthough in my case, the island was literally an island: a speck of limestone dressed in green jungle, part of the Micronesian archipelago, just north of the equator, in the middle of theâŚ
Donât Be a Stranger
https://lithub.com/dont-be-a-stranger/
Published: October 16, 2024 08:14
Each day they were up by six-thirty. Sometimes in the night Nicky would have crawled into her bed and be a unit of heat beside her, arms flung out, mouth parted, his foot tucked under her knee, or into her elbow. They would get Nicky dressed first. Then heâŚ
Hereâs why Han Kang is refusing to celebrate her Nobel Prize.
https://lithub.com/heres-why-han-kang-is-refusing-to-celebrate-her-nobel-prize/
Published: October 15, 2024 21:40
Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last week, and no, weâre still not over it! Beating out a sea of favored predictions, Kangâs singularly surreal and audacious prose was a dark horse for Big Swede recognition. The academy praised Kang âfor her intense poeticâŚ
Arundhati Roy is âunflinchingâ about genocide in her powerful PEN award acceptance speech.
Published: October 15, 2024 15:31
Arundhati Roy, the internationally celebrated author and human rights activist, has once again proven herself to be a model culture worker. On receiving the PEN Foundationâs annually given Pinter Prize last week, Roy announced that sheâd be donating herâŚ
Literary takeaways from the 2024 film festival circuit.
https://lithub.com/literary-takeaways-from-the-2024-film-festival-circuit/
Published: October 15, 2024 14:12
Ah, the end of film festival season. That magical time of year when all the critics make their award predictions, and all your MoviePass pals are clogging theaters, eager to catch the indies without big distribution deals before they disappear from theâŚ
Lit Hub Daily: October 15, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-october-15-2024/
Published: October 15, 2024 10:30
âââ THE ISSUES: 2024 âââ Lit Hub is going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Today we examine the importance of labor movements to Americans, with the ten best booksâŚ
âAriadne Sends a Message,â a Poem by Margaret Atwood
https://lithub.com/ariadne-sends-a-message-a-poem-by-margaret-atwood/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:59
âAriadne Sends a Messageâ Now that our tasty liaison is over, the monster slaughtered, the palace going under, the black-draped ships embarked, and Iâm stuck on this feckless island with a dipsomaniac in lion skins, and youâve sailed off to do your fatherâŚ
The Issues 2024: Why the Labor Movement is So Important to Americans
https://lithub.com/the-issues-2024-why-the-labor-movement-is-so-important-to-americans/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:57
For the next few weeks, Literary Hub will be going beyond the memes for an in-depth look at the everyday issues affecting Americans as they head to the polls on November 5th. Each week at Lit Hub weâll be featuring reading lists, essays, and interviews onâŚ
Kim Kelly: Why the American Labor Movement Matters
https://lithub.com/kim-kelly-why-the-american-labor-movement-matters/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:56
This past year has been an incredibly exciting one for the American labor movement. All across the country, workers have been organizing, fighting, and winning, and the momentum that began to build back in 2020 hasnât slowed for a moment. The latest GallupâŚ
10 of the Best Books on the History of American Labor
https://lithub.com/ten-of-the-best-books-on-the-history-of-american-labor/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:56
The history of American labor is rich and vital. Without the sacrifices of generations of workers, who risked both lives and livelihoods in the name of fairness and equity, much of what we take for granted in our day-to-day lives would vanish: theâŚ
Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary
https://lithub.com/anthony-bourdain-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-a-truly-infamous-cook-typhoid-mary/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:56
Historically, to be a cook, to prepare food for others, was always to identify oneself with the degraded and the debauched. As far back as ancient Rome, and as recently as pre-Civil War America, cooks were slaves. Untrustworthy, unpleasant, and more oftenâŚ
A Fleeting Utopia: The Rise and Fall of the âWomenâs Hotelâ in American Cities
https://lithub.com/a-fleeting-utopia-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-womens-hotel-in-american-cities/
Published: October 15, 2024 08:56
The womenâs hotel left no lasting mark on the American city. It was born in the nineteenth century, then briefly prospered and died within the compass of the twentieth. In the 1930s, perhaps two or three such hotels could be found in Denver, Seattle, andâŚ
Lit Hub Weekly: October 7 â October 11, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-october-7-october-11-2024/
Published: October 12, 2024 10:30
A guide to Cormac McCarthyâs literary influences, from Beowulf to Foucault. | Lit Hub Criticism From barroom chats with Raymond Carver to the aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger explores class consciousness in American letters. | Lit Hub Memoir SteveâŚ
Play some spooky, literary bingo with us.
https://lithub.com/play-some-spooky-literary-bingo-with-us/
Published: October 11, 2024 15:12
Weâre well into Halloweenâs favorite month â October â when costumed kids, Hot Topic teens, and arts-and-crafts-obsessed adults all join together to celebrate the season of spookiness. If youâve been feeling a little left out, weâve got your back. I putâŚ
Lit Hub Daily: October 11, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-october-11-2024/
Published: October 11, 2024 10:30
âI think itâs interesting that thereâs such an overt transformation at the center of the book, but then itâs really about these subtle transformations within a relationship.â Director Marielle Heller and author Rachel Yoder discuss their creativeâŚ
A Broader History of the Labor Movement: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast
https://lithub.com/a-broader-history-of-the-labor-movement-this-week-on-the-lit-hub-podcast/
Published: October 11, 2024 09:01
A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary cultureâfeaturing Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. As part of The Issues 2024, this episode isâŚ
A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on the Page and on the Screen
Published: October 11, 2024 08:30
Author Rachel Yoder and director Marielle Heller sit down to talk about Nightbitch, Hellerâs new film based on Yoderâs novel of the same name. The film opens the third Refocus Film Festival on October 17 in Iowa City. The festival is an appreciation of theâŚ
Land, Oil, and Indigenous Identity: On the Disappearance of Tommy Atkins
https://lithub.com/land-oil-and-indigenous-identity-on-the-disappearance-of-tommy-atkins/
Published: October 11, 2024 08:25
Angie Debo, working in the 1930s, was a laconic, studious woman with a small-town Oklahoma background and impeccable academic credentials (she earned an MA from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Oklahoma). She compiled a manuscriptâŚ
Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?
https://lithub.com/who-decides-what-asian-american-literature-is/
Published: October 11, 2024 08:20
In the 1990s, when I was a student at the newly formed Asian Pacific American Studies Department at NYU, the artist in residence at the time, David Henry Hwang, visited my class and spoke about Bruce Lee and the film The Joy Luck Club. He said somethingâŚ
Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression
https://lithub.com/mark-haber-on-the-beauty-of-digression/
Published: October 11, 2024 08:19
This first appeared in Lit Hubâs Craft of Writing newsletterâsign up here. Stream of consciousness is not a literary affectation as many like to think, but the way our brains naturally work; traditionally weâre taught that narrative fiction requires breaksâŚ
Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers
https://lithub.com/choreographing-shows-and-scenes-what-dance-can-teach-fiction-writers/
Published: October 11, 2024 08:15
In my latest novel, The Colony Club, I begin with one character, Daisy Harriman, in 1968, just her and a young reporter as she looks back over her life. Sheâs old, subdued but proud of her achievements. Itâs an intimate scene, only two people in theâŚ
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Published: October 11, 2024 08:10
Alan Hollinghurstâs Our Evenings, David Greenbergâs John Lewis: A Life, and John Edgar Widemanâs Slaveroad all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hubâs home for book reviews. * Fiction 1. Our Evenings byâŚ
âStar Fishâ
Published: October 11, 2024 08:00
The voices of the teachers come through the computer speakers: each child must pick a project. My oldest son picks the state of Oregon. My middle son draws pictures of mythological creatures: a Minotaur, a Pegasus, a dragon. My youngest son is not yet inâŚ
Hereâs the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
https://lithub.com/heres-the-shortlist-for-the-2024-baillie-gifford-prize-for-nonfiction/
Published: October 10, 2024 18:45
Today, at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Peter Hoskin announced the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, which recognizes the best books in the category published in English in the UK over the past year. âThe sixâŚ
Here are the shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in poetry and prose.
Published: October 10, 2024 14:00
Today, the American Literary Translators Association announced its shortlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards, which celebrate âliterary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating theâŚ
Read the 1934 Nora Neale Hurston essay that inspired next yearâs Met Gala theme.
https://lithub.com/read-the-1934-nora-neale-hurston-essay-that-inspired-next-years-met-gala-theme/
Published: October 10, 2024 13:17
The Met Gala is being literary again. On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the Costume Instituteâs spring 2025 exhibition, which also traditionally serves as the Met Gala theme: âSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style.â First of all, accordingâŚ
Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western
Published: October 10, 2024 11:50
It was a random day in August when a trade paperback copy of Lonesome Dove showed up in the mail from Simon & Schuster. It didnât come with a press release or a note, and Iâm still not sure who sent it to me (Iâve asked a few S&S publicists and it remainsâŚ
Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
https://lithub.com/han-kang-has-won-the-nobel-prize-in-literature/
Published: October 10, 2024 11:26
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang, âfor her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.â Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made herâŚ
Lit Hub Daily: October 10, 2024
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-october-10-2024/
Published: October 10, 2024 10:30
A guide to Cormac McCarthyâs literary influences, from Beowulf to Foucault. | Lit Hub Criticism âThese men and women intended to be agents of history, wading into relentless currents to rudder the United States toward a far and brighter shore.â AranâŚ
From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy
https://lithub.com/from-beowulf-to-foucault-on-the-literary-influences-of-cormac-mccarthy/
Published: October 10, 2024 08:56
One thing we learn from a study of influence is that critics do not approach reading in the same way that an artist does, or at least not in the way the artist Cormac McCarthy does. For instance, Rick Wallach, in an essay exploring kinships between BloodâŚ
Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market
Published: October 10, 2024 08:55
Iâm not a stock market person. I learned the difference between a stock and a bond in business school, which I attended six years after college because I still didnât know what I wanted to do with my life and thought an MBA would help give me direction.âŚ
How a Group of Revolutionary Anti-Racist Activists Planned to Fight the Klan in North Carolina
Published: October 10, 2024 08:55
On the evening of November 2, 1979, the comfortable, eight-room bungalow at the corner of Cypress and Yanceyville Streets in Greensboro, North Carolina, hummed with activity. In the kitchen and dining room and in an upstairs office, men and women huddledâŚ
Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Donât Always Make the Best Speakers
https://lithub.com/text-to-speech-troubles-why-writers-dont-always-make-the-best-speakers/
Published: October 10, 2024 08:54
Prior to the publication of my first novel, I was invited to speak at a conference for independent booksellers in hopes of generating interest in my book. âWhat do I do?â I asked my husband, who is also an author (a more veteran one) and much moreâŚ
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
https://lithub.com/5-book-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-10-10-2024/
Published: October 10, 2024 08:30
Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Brandon Taylor on Karl Ove Knausgaardâs The Third Realm, John Jeremiah Sullivan on Aaron Robertsonâs The Black Utopians, Ed Park on Tricia Romanoâs The Freaks Came Out to Write, Christopher Taylor on AnneâŚ
Jeff Sharlet on âSanewashingâ and Fascism
https://lithub.com/jeff-sharlet-on-sanewashing-and-fascism/
Published: October 10, 2024 08:01
Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trumpâs rhetoric in their reporting rather than straightforwardly describing his words and behavior, an approachâŚ
Ixelles
Published: October 10, 2024 08:00
Ruth Behind the frosted glass of the door, the childrenâs green-blue silhouettes ring out, noisy and over-tired. Shoes tossed haphazardly in the hallway: fur-lined nylon boots, high-end sneakersâEm had pestered his way to a pair with air cushions in theâŚ