[New post] Lit Hub Daily: May 2, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "My great hope is that a generation of courageous writers will reveal that there is more humanity than barbarity in Putin's Russia." Marcia DeSanctis tries to reconcile her love of Russian lit with Putin's ascendancy. | Lit Hub Criticism Fr" Lit Hub Daily: May 2, 2022 Lit Hub Daily May 2 TODAY: In 1936, Edna St. Vincent Millay's work in progress, Conversations at Midnight, is burned in a hotel fire on Sanibel Island, Florida.   "My great hope is that a generation of courageous writers will reveal that there is more humanity than barbarity in Putin's Russia." Marcia DeSanctis tries to reconcile her love of Russian lit with Putin's ascendancy. | Lit Hub Criticism From true crime to giant snakes to Sally Rooney, May's literary film and TV has something for everyone. | Lit Hub Film & TV "I can write anywhere. Except with my wife looking over my shoulder." Andrea Bajani on writing, solitude, and forgiveness. | Lit Hub Memoir Conveying the uncanny and mysterious: Jeff VanderMeer talks to the designers of his book covers. | Lit Hub Design What can animals show us about more meaningfully encountering the wider world? | Lit Hub Nature "It's almost absurd to present Emar as a forgotten writer, since he has never been, so to speak, sufficiently remembered." Alejandro Zambra in praise of Juan Emar. | Lit Hub Criticism INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: Elizabeth Murphy, editor and publisher of Grid Books, on publishing poets with "decades of lived experience." | Lit Hub New titles from Emma Straub, Holly Black, and Nghi Vo all feature among May's best sci-fi and fantasy books. | Book Marks "Fine writing on the actual constituent elements of three-dimensionality is hard to find, pleasing to consume, and pleasurable to recommend." Jo Livingstone on The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long 16th Century. | 4Columns What dinner will look like in 100 years, according to sci-fi authors. | Bon Appetit Jackie Mansky considers the perennial appeal of Choose Your Own Adventure stories. | Zócalo Public Square "The reality is that women aren't killed by time-traveling serial killers; it's our loved ones killing us." Lauren Beukes discusses the television adaptation of her novel The Shining Girls. | Esquire Neil Gaiman lists the books that changed his life. | The Guardian Hannah Chute talks about the process of translating graphic novels from French into English. | Los Angeles Review of Books Victoria Baena looks at Letters to Gwen John, an epistolary book in which Celia Paul "offers new ways of seeing." | The Baffler Also on Lit Hub: How celebrated Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones enshrined her own story • Elisha Cooper on coming to terms with what killed his brother • Read from Alyssa Songsiridej's debut novel, Little Rabbit 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