[New post] Lit Hub Daily: April 29, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "Twitter is, by definition, a rotten product designed by tech billionaires to compound our inattention and narcissism." Why Elon Musk and Twitter deserve each other. | Lit Hub Tech Marian Schwartz considers how Putin's war will affect the f" Lit Hub Daily: April 29, 2022 Lit Hub Daily Apr 29 TODAY: In 1917, Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkowska), Ukrainian-born American filmmaker and writer, is born. (Pictured here in Meshes of the Afternoon.)  "Twitter is, by definition, a rotten product designed by tech billionaires to compound our inattention and narcissism." Why Elon Musk and Twitter deserve each other. | Lit Hub Tech Marian Schwartz considers how Putin's war will affect the future of Russian literature in translation. | Lit Hub Ukraine Negesti Kaudo recommends books that explore what it means to be Black, American, and a woman. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Are we living in a golden age of historical fiction for people of color? | Lit Hub Adriana Trigiani recounts how a gemology class at Christie's helped her inhabit the world of her new novel. | Lit Hub Craft Read Robert M. Pirsig's 1974 address to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in which he describes writing a little book called Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. | Lit Hub Craft Deep, passionate, co-dependent: Jonathan Howland in praise of men in love who aren't (in most cases) lovers. | Lit Hub Reading Lists New titles by Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Douglas Stuart, and Margo Jefferson feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks Laura Meckler and Perry Stein look at a handful of books that are frequently challenged in schools—and why. | The Washington Post A researcher is working to locate books made with toxic materials, including arsenic, now housed in libraries and rare book collections. | National Geographic "Once I started asking other people about their daydreams, I began to realize that daydreams are like pain: impossible to compare across the bodies of dreamers." Leslie Jamison on daydreaming. | Astra Magazine Judith Levine reports from a celebration of Amazon's unionization on Staten Island. | n+1 Don Winslow on the complicated ethics of depicting violence in fiction. | TIME "If you poke at the logic of the book for even a second, it completely falls apart." Revisiting Frank Peretti's Christian fantasy novels, which fueled decades of conservative hysteria. | Vox Also on Lit Hub: Lillie Lainoff on chronic illness in literature • A poem by Monika Herceg (tr. Marina Veverec) • Read from Steve Almond's latest novel, All the Secrets of the World Comment 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: http://lithub.pagelyapps.com Powered by Jetpack