[New post] Lit Hub Daily: September 1, 2021

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "Whether or not Proust would join Instagram, he would undoubtedly understand the tragedy of it." Meredith Westgate wonders about the role of memory in the age of social media. | Lit Hub As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Lila Nord" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: September 1, 2021 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1906, Annie Carroll Moore begins work as Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children at the New York Public Library.    "Whether or not Proust would join Instagram, he would undoubtedly understand the tragedy of it." Meredith Westgate wonders about the role of memory in the age of social media. | Lit Hub As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Lila Nordstrom recommends breaking our habit of "passive mourning" and instead looking to books that inspire activism and advocacy. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Deconsecrating science writing: Joshua Roebke considers why we believe in the unseen. | Lit Hub Science "Sure, pie is immoderate, overindulgent, unrefined, and potentially inflammatory, but so is America." Matt Siegel traces the transatlantic history of pies. | Lit Hub Food 12 crime novels to read this September, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. | CrimeReads Stanislaw Lem's The Truth, Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement, Lincoln Michel's The Body Scout, and more of September's most-anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy titles. | Book Marks On Keen On, Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. on leading your organization into the future, and Eyal Press on the immorality of "dirty work." | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel Karl Ove Knausgaard talks with Torrey Peters about gender, genre, and more. | Vulture Revisiting the cinematic adaptation of Robert Graves's I, Claudius. | Bright Wall/Dark Room "Pop Song begins to read like a beautiful, literary breakup album, each essay operating as its own track." A close reading of Larissa Pham's latest book, which masters the art of the breakup song. | Ploughshares "I think you tell some general truths in fiction and you tell some personal truths; it's sort of a combination." Hilma and Meg Wolitzer in conversation. | Washington Post Raven Leilani talks to Jennifer Wilson about health insurance, creativity under capitalism, and the realities of Black work. | Lux Alexander Chee profiles Tony Leung, "the preeminent Hong Kong actor of his generation and one of international cinema's greatest stars." | GQ What happened to privacy? Roslyn Fuller explores digital life in discussing new work by Heidi Boghosian. | Los Angeles Review of Books Also on Lit Hub: What to read this month, based on your astrology sign • A poem by Stanley Moss • Read new fiction from Dawnie Walton, "The High Shelf" Lit Hub Daily | September 1, 2021 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-Km0 Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Literary Hub. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-september-1-2021-2/