[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: April 24–28, 2023

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "A hypnagogic horror show." Brian Dillon on migraines and scotoma, and trying to describe the geometry of blind spots. | Lit Hub Health David Sexton considers Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: "What this book is about is ordinary, normal an" Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: April 24–28, 2023 Lit Hub Daily Apr 29 TODAY: In 1885, Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch is born.    "A hypnagogic horror show." Brian Dillon on migraines and scotoma, and trying to describe the geometry of blind spots. | Lit Hub Health David Sexton considers Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: "What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal, that our time is limited, death inescapable." | Lit Hub Criticism "I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day." Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir "White women are not just responsible for literally perpetuating the white race; white mothers are responsible for instilling white supremacist ideology in their children." When QAnon meets momfluencer culture. | Lit Hub Politics Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies, Claire Dederer's Monsters, Emily Henry's Happy Place, and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Weeks. | Book Marks Edgar Award nominees weigh in on the state of crime fiction and offer writing advice. | CrimeReads "Choose a few titles from the growing list of banned books." Judy Blume shares her must-reads. | The New York Times Why 1969's Army of Shadows—based on the book by Joseph Kessel—is the best spy movie of all time. | Collider Delia Owens's journey to help poachers find a better line of work. | The Washington Post Libraries devastated by the war in Ukraine are removing their Russian literature. | New York Review of Books What the "hurried" writing on the waterlogged pages of Toni Morrison's diaries reveal at Princeton's archival exhibition | The Atlantic The London Book Fair brought with it a new award for first-time novelists over 50. | The Guardian Matthew Perry will be self-editing Keanu out of his memoir. | Rolling Stone Abigail Covington on the new battleground over what kids and teens should be reading: the public library. | Esquire "I like that [the concept of] backspace was originally just that—a space going backward." On writing a history of the keyboard. | MIT Technology Review "Cultural disintegration." Readers react to Christian Lorentzen's lament for Bookforum. | The Washington Post "I'm like, This is literary shit going on here." Read a profile of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. | Vulture Lyz Lenz goes behind the scenes of that Tucker Carlson profile. | Men Yell At Me On Norman Mailer, whose letters "reveal a megalomaniacally ambitious young man congenitally prone to embellishment, unsound theorizing, and self-aggrandizing roleplay." | The Baffler Tajja Isen on the Internet Archive Lawsuit, book bans, library budget cutbacks, and labor issues at major publishing houses. | The Walrus New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates. | The New Yorker Also on Lit Hub: Julie Buntin on the uncanny omniscience of Judy Blume • Lauren Groff on this year's winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction • Lucinda Williams recalls the turbulence of growing up with a sick mother • Read "Equinox '75," a poem by Ursula Le Guin • Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the divided mother • Smuggling The Literary Guide to the Bible into the psych ward • Ten screen adaptations much, much worse than the books they're based on • The birth of Pornhub • How knowledge of the natural world can save lives • Sarah Cypher on Turkish cats • Unpacking anti-fat bias in youth sports • James Canton on finding the sublime in solitude • Shubha Sunder on writing between India and Boston • The problem with gender-reversed teen sex comedies • Happy indie bookstore day! Here are ten of our favorites. 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-april-24-28-2023/

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