[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: June 6-10, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "In a perversion of all laws of the universe, I'm about to read my father a story before bedtime." Séamas O'Reilly on reading his memoir to the man who taught him to love books (and skipping over the hardest bits). | Lit Hub Memoir Lousy at" Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: June 6-10, 2022 Lit Hub Daily Jun 11 TODAY: In 1899, Japanese novelist and short story writer Yasunari Kawabata is born.   "In a perversion of all laws of the universe, I'm about to read my father a story before bedtime." Séamas O'Reilly on reading his memoir to the man who taught him to love books (and skipping over the hardest bits). | Lit Hub Memoir Lousy at first impressions: When tomatoes made their debut in Renaissance Europe. | Lit Hub Food Keith Gessen explores the often-disturbing biographies of great children's book authors, from Eric Carle to the secretive author of the Frances books. | Lit Hub An affair to remember: When Rob Reiner's alter ego (Harry) met Nora Ephron's alter ego (Sally). | Lit Hub Film & TV Leila Mottley's Nightcrawling, Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win, and Andrew Holleran's Kingdom of Sand all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks "Praise the shoe that transports us somewhere / more magical than where we are now." Poems about life in 2022 by Daniel B. Summerhill, Victoria Chang, and more. | The Wall Street Journal Tertulia is the latest in a parade of apps hoping to "reproduce online the serendipity of walking into a bookstore and discovering new books and authors." | The New York Times "I'm a poet who's never experienced true romantic love; I believe this is an American tragedy." Morgan Parker reflects on a lifetime of singlehood. | ELLE "Our lives were strikingly similar. The greatest difference was I was allowed to execute my dreams. Floyd was murdered in the process of executing his." Darryl Robertson on the new biography His Name Was George Floyd. | Esquire "There's a difference between basing a novel on someone else's story and using someone else's written account of that story." Roxana Robinson on Wallace Stegner and authors who use other people's writing. | The New Yorker What are the most influential queer books of all time? | Book Riot "To find the creative spark in a difficult moment can be extraordinarily liberating." Adam Dalva on Body Work and the necessity of writing about trauma. | The Atlantic What's up with all the Chekhov revivals these days? | Los Angeles Times "There's a disconnect between what we know of American politics today and this notion that the spirit of freedom abroad is fighting, with American help, a great battle with autocracy." Pankaj Mishra on Ukraine, sanctions, and the politics of humiliation. | The Drift Lukas Moe looks at "quit lit" and its context in an unsustainable academic system. | Los Angeles Review of Books Ahead of Bloomsday, step inside Ulysses Rare Books, the antiquarian bookshop near Davy Byrne's pub (IYKYK). | Financial Times A new exhibition shows the ways that children's books captured the civil rights movement. | The New York Times Heather Schwedel investigates the latest titling trend in women's fiction: the "protagonist does a thing" formula. | Slate A look at the oldest cookbooks from libraries around the world. | Atlas Obscura Should writers stop talking? | Gawker Also on Lit Hub: James Patterson remembers the time James Baldwin fought Norman Mailer • Sloane Crosley on writing a novel for people who haven't figured it out yet • Who are the "real" writers anyway? • Heather O'Neill on writing and mothering • Madhushree Ghosh on hosting Diwali in her new home • Pushing the borders of nonfiction • Joseph Han on the militarized history behind a favorite food • How graphic novels convey a bygone New York • What would a modern-day Austen novel look like? • Tété-Michel's apolitical travelogue could transform us all • What the Ancient Greeks thought they understood about blood • Reyna Grande on giving her kids the childhood she never had • All fiction is climate fiction now • Adam White on breaking (some of) the rules he gives his writing students • Turns out, summer vacations are a 19th-century invention of the rich • Philip Schultz on the creative juice behind unpleasant emotions • How jazz fueled a nationwide dance craze • Taylor Brobry on growing up gay in North Dakota • On the intimate history between skin and ink • How Bo Seo became a world-champion debater • Who were the first humans in Britain? • How Utica became a city for refugees • Edafe Okporo on life as a gay ex-priest in Nigeria • Read excerpts from Mary Churchill's World War II diary • On the discovery of the first T. Rex fossil • "Writing a novel is such a big How—a Voltron, really, of many little Hows." • On the early days of the Heterodoxy Women's Club • Life as a paramedic in March 2020 • The final journals of Antigone Kefala, one of Australia's most significant writers • Toward a definition of Indigenous futurism 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: https://lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-june-6-10-2022/ Powered by Jetpack