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

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Where are all the plain female protagonists? Lucinda Rosenfeld considers the literary trope of the "great beauty." | Lit Hub Criticism Stuart Jeffries on Netflix's notorious binge culture, the illusion of choice… and how David Foster Wallac" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: November 1, 2021 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1886, Sakutaro Hagiwara, considered the father of free verse in Japan, is born.  Where are all the plain female protagonists? Lucinda Rosenfeld considers the literary trope of the "great beauty." | Lit Hub Criticism Stuart Jeffries on Netflix's notorious binge culture, the illusion of choice… and how David Foster Wallace predicted it all. | Lit Hub TV "Being awarded a house is both validating and terrifying, as well as several other emotions I find myself unable to affix." Anne Elizabeth Moore on the cost of winning a "free house" in Detroit. | Lit Hub Memoir Muriel Barbery recommends letting form guide your story. | Lit Hub Craft Paul Auster on one of the finest war stories in American literature, "a four-page 60-yard dash without a single misstep or stumble along the way." | Lit Hub "I cried all those years not because I ached for motherhood but because I feared regret." Teresa K. Miller on being no one's mother. | Lit Hub How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams—at "a national convention unlike America had ever witnessed"—helped launch the Progressive party. | Lit Hub History Ski bums, Jazz Age madams, and postwar bohemians all feature among November's new and noteworthy nonfiction. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Watch Christina Quarles and Maggie Nelson in conversation. | Bookforum Photographer Matt McClain on the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and his connection to Baltimore. | The Washington Post On the enduring appeal of Dune. | The New Yorker One positive outcome of the latest absurd attempt to ban Beloved in schools: the book's sales are through the roof. | Quartz Emma Specter considers the joys of tandem reading. | Vogue Alison Flood looks at the rebound of the horror genre and the writers pushing it to new places. | The Guardian Petra Mayer of NPR Books shares her favorite thrilling reads. | WBUR Also on Lit Hub: Virtual book events to stream in November • A poem by Amanda Moore • Read a story by Lana Bastašić (tr. Celia Hawkesworth) in Freeman's  Lit Hub Daily | November 1, 2021 at 6:30 am | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-LJa 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-november-1-2021/