[New post] September 24, 2021

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "Fitzgerald likes to rub rich people's monstrousness against their beauty and thereby make sparks fly." Andrew Martin and Benjamin Nugent discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald on his birthday. | Lit Hub Criticism Biographer Jacques Berlinerblau on wh" New post on Literary Hub September 24, 2021 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1940, French writer Yves Navarre (left), pictured here with journalist Jean Le Bitoux at a march for gay rights in Paris, is born.    "Fitzgerald likes to rub rich people's monstrousness against their beauty and thereby make sparks fly." Andrew Martin and Benjamin Nugent discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald on his birthday. | Lit Hub Criticism Biographer Jacques Berlinerblau on why it matters that the literary world lacks critical distance when it comes to Philip Roth. | Lit Hub Biography Yiyun Li takes ten writing lessons from War and Peace. | Lit Hub Craft "People just really love reading about kinky sex." Leigh Cowart on the centuries-long success of sadomasochistic books, from Venus in Furs to Fifty Shades of Grey. | Lit Hub Criticism Is restoring "wildlife corridors" the key to solving climate change? | Lit Hub  "You'd be reading the script and it would be like, 'We've got to medical the medical until medical happens to medical.'" Behind the scenes of the Grey's Anatomy writers' room. | Lit Hub TV INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Everything you need to know about The Georgia Review. | Lit Hub Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look to the past for solutions to handling "a crisis-ridden climatic future." | Lit Hub Climate Change "I want to know what it is about the truth that prevents me from writing it. Why do I prefer my own version to the 'real' version?" Joshua Cohen talks to Lincoln Michel about The Netanyahus and interpreting truth. | Frieze On the big business of online book clubs and the female founders who are at the helm. | Marie Claire Alice McDermott discusses making the leap to nonfiction and the mechanics of craft. | Bomb "There are many fine writers of literary fiction, maybe too many... but only one world's richest lady." Considering the novels of MacKenzie Bezos in the (all-consuming) context of her proximity to Amazon. | The Paris Review Incarcerated writers reflect on the mental, physical, and emotional toll the pandemic has taken. | The Drift You've seen this book cover: "amorphous daubs of warm, bright color," "a blocky but refined sans serif." R.E. Hawley breaks down the trend in book design. | Print Steve Kettmann pens a love letter to Green Apple Books in San Francisco, where each visit "had a way of both inspiring and exhausting me." | The Bold Italic Also on Lit Hub: Thomas Gladysz shares tales from a decade of bookstore events • How the iconic late-night tv character Elvira came to be • Read a story from Casey Plett's latest collection, A Dream of a Woman  Lit Hub Daily | September 24, 2021 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-KOI 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/september-24-2021/