[New post] Lit Hub Daily: January 25, 2023

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Introducing a new indie press, Great Place Books: "We want to be a home for books that are allowed to remain ambitious and weird." | Lit Hub "My dive into Weimar Germany taught me that authoritarianism doesn't always follow a linear path." " Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: January 25, 2023 Lit Hub Daily Jan 25 TODAY: In 1874, W. Somerset Maugham is born.   Introducing a new indie press, Great Place Books: "We want to be a home for books that are allowed to remain ambitious and weird." | Lit Hub "My dive into Weimar Germany taught me that authoritarianism doesn't always follow a linear path." Travis Mushett on his project to understand present-day America through films from an earlier era of social instability. | Lit Hub Film Freedom Summer: How a group of Black activists inspired change in segregated Mississippi. | Lit Hub History Kathryn Ma recalls the summer she spent assisting a science librarian—who also happened to be her mom. | Lit Hub Memoir "Tolkien's characters remain largely static; it's the world around them that changes." Austin Gilkeson on the challenges of adapting Tolkien's fiction for television. | The New York Review From The Secret History to Dept. of Speculation, a reading list of betrayals. curated by Judas Goat author Gabrielle Bates. | Electric Lit Journalist Victor S. Navasky has died at 90. | The New York Times "Weighing in on 'the way we live now' entails new scrutiny on that 'we.'" Molly Fischer profiles Pamela Paul, "a provocateur temperamentally averse to provocation." | The New Yorker A history of the FBI spying on people's library activity. | The Washington Post Lincoln Michel considers the long-promised "techno book revolution" that never seems to arrive. | Counter Craft Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of happy endings to brighten up dark January days • How Thoreau reckoned with the loss of his brother • Read from Paul Harding's latest novel, This Other Eden 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-daily-january-25-2023/ Powered by Jetpack