Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2023

Lit Hub Daily

Jul 28

TODAY: In 1848, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft elope to France.

"A small, vengeful man." Masha Gessen chronicles how Vladimir Putin began his iron-fisted reign in Russia. | Lit Hub Politics
A friendship for the ages: On the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, two believers in American exceptionalism. | Lit Hub History
Now that we've all seen Barbenheimer, here's the Literary Film And TV You Need to Stream in August. | Lit Hub Film & TV
The Best Audiobooks of July for your listening pleasure. | Lit Hub
Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate all feature among July's Best Reviewed Fiction. | Book Marks
Kate Zambreno's The Light Room, Beth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart, and John McPhee's Tabula Rasa all feature among July's Best Reviewed Nonfiction. | Book Marks
"He would be forever in the same room with me, but six feet apart. It was just as well that his life now seemed perfectly self-contained, finally stabilized. He had no room for me in it." A new story by Emily Zhou. | Curran
Molly Templeton wonders: What do we want from the bookish internet? | Tor
"My locs soak up water and sun like a plant. They laugh at me, speak to me, and grow with me." In the new issue of Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Lirit Gilmore writes about hair and stories. | Dorothy Parker's Ashes
Take a look (out)side Bart's Books, Ojai's iconic outdoor bookstore. | LA Times
Peter Schurmal Wallace considers the connection between Peter Handke's writing and his politics. | The Nation

Also on Lit Hub: 23 books out in paperback this August • Yael Goldstein-Love on weaving science into fiction • Read from Alexis M. Smith's reissued debut novel, Glaciers