[New post] Lit Hub Daily: February 22, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Jane Pek considers Pride and Prejudice, the gay marriage movement, and the choice to marry. | Lit Hub Baby steps: Ben Okri reflects on how writing a children's book is an antidote to doomsday thinking. | Lit Hub "It is a place to lea" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: February 22, 2022 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1819, American Romantic poet James Russell Lowell is born.   Jane Pek considers Pride and Prejudice, the gay marriage movement, and the choice to marry. | Lit Hub Baby steps: Ben Okri reflects on how writing a children's book is an antidote to doomsday thinking. | Lit Hub "It is a place to learn about the naked self." Daniel Genis on reading his way through his prison sentence. | Lit Hub Memoir Julie Otsuka talks to Jane Ciabattari about the story behind her latest novel, The Swimmers. | Lit Hub "I don't believe in an afterlife, but I do believe in archives." Isaac Fellman on the delight and desolation of archival research. | Lit Hub On the secret lives on sandhoppers, "the fizz of life itself." | Lit Hub Nature Dan Nadel considers the cartoon context of Maus. | Artforum "How can poetry call attention to creative forms of survival and persistence, human and nonhuman?" Margaret Ronda on art that imagines through catastrophe. | Public Books "Take me or leave me or, as is the usual order of things, both." Read the Divorce Issue of Dorothy Parker's Ashes. | Dorothy Parker's Ashes Patricia Lockwood talks to Deborah Treisman about writing across forms, humor as hand-me-down, and Internetspeak. | The New Yorker Christopher Buckley on the works of P.J. O'Rourke, "a fellow of infinite jest." | The New York Times Two Missouri students are suing their school district after Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye was pulled from the library. | TIME Writer and human rights lawyer Flynn Coleman describes how words function as "technologies of power." | The Los Angeles Review of Books Also on Lit Hub: On the not-so-unlikely friendship between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr. • Aisling Walsh on making sense of her mom's Terminator fandom • Read from Sasha Fletcher's debut novel, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World Lit Hub Daily | February 22, 2022 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-NIq 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-february-22-2022/