[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: January 24 – 28, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Morgan Thomas against "place as character"—and in favor of something more dynamic. | Lit Hub Craft "It was a power ballad missile of queasy erotic awakening aimed straight at my 14-year-old heart." Summer Brennan revisits the genius of Meat Loaf'" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: January 24 – 28, 2022 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1963, Robert Frost dies at 89.  Morgan Thomas against "place as character"—and in favor of something more dynamic. | Lit Hub Craft "It was a power ballad missile of queasy erotic awakening aimed straight at my 14-year-old heart." Summer Brennan revisits the genius of Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." | Lit Hub Music "It was like an über-nerdy On the Road." Oliver Roeder tracks the highs and lows of competitive Scrabble. | Lit Hub Sports? How "drunkard" narratives by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman fueled the early temperance movement. | Lit Hub History Zadie Smith on the genius of Toni Morrison's only short story. | The New Yorker "The idea that there are near-Gods of creativity amongst us is a potent one, particularly in a world that feels increasingly unpredictable." On the destructive myth of the lone creative genius. | Document Journal Rebecca Solnit makes the case for planting roses in difficult times. | The Nation "Even the act of creation, the attempts at creation, creates all these ripples in the world." Esmé Weijun Wang interviews Andrew Garfield. | The Believer Ruth Franklin discusses Shirley Jackson's diverse career and critical renaissance. | Guernica What's behind a conservative-led campaign to ban books that address "race, LGBTQ issues or marginalized communities" from schools? | The Guardian "If it's true that prison education cannot change prisons, I'm not sure I could renounce it given a second chance." Daniel Fernandez on the purgatory of prison classrooms. | The Baffler Twelve years after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Kettly Mars reflects on the literature of the disaster. | Words Without Borders Suzanne Van Atten looks at Imani Perry's South to America, which contends "that the South has had a tremendous impact on the history of our nation and that it continues to exert significant influence today." | LARB Kyle Chayka unpacks the ingenious simplicity of Wordle. | The New Yorker A highly anticipated cookbook has been delayed because all the copies of it (probably) sank to the bottom of the sea. | Grub Street "Above all, an artist needs to learn to think in the medium they are working in. Whatever that is." Lincoln Michel on why a fiction writer must be a fiction reader. | Countercraft "I'm less interested in the volume of work than in doing work I really find value in. Which is very different than operating under the clock of capitalism." Bryan Washington discusses care and craft. | The Atlantic fri 1 Also on Lit Hub: Imani Perry on writing the story of the American South • Maggie Rowe collects words to live by from The Golden Girls • Luke Cassidy makes a case for turning down tepid book deals • Kate Colby muses on pareidolia • Ricky Tucker on Paris Is Burning and the magic of queer blackness • Eileen Pollack on her father's deathbed hallucinations • Emma Knight finds comfort in the diaries of Virginia Woolf • Jessamine Chan and Crystal Hana Kim discuss American parenting culture • Francesca Stavrakopoulou on "divine footprints" • 10 books for being alone • David L. Ulin wanders the back streets of Old Hollywood • Tomiko Brown-Nagin looks at the early career of Constance Baker Motley • A brief history of the American clothing industry Lit Hub Daily | January 29, 2022 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-Ndo 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-weekly-january-24-28-2022/