[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: July 24-28, 2023

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Poe vs. Himself: On Edgar Allan Poe's one-sided war with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | Lit Hub Biography Exploring the dreams of octopuses. | Lit Hub Animals How do we tell the stories of Picasso's mistresses? Anne Boyd Rioux looks t" Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: July 24-28, 2023 Lit Hub Daily Jul 29 TODAY: In 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring is published.   Poe vs. Himself: On Edgar Allan Poe's one-sided war with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | Lit Hub Biography Exploring the dreams of octopuses. | Lit Hub Animals How do we tell the stories of Picasso's mistresses? Anne Boyd Rioux looks to the "weeping woman," Dora Maar. | Lit Hub History Tamara Faith Berger in praise of the new sex writing: "This is literature created to hear the sluts speak." | Lit Hub Criticism Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto, Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist, Kate Zambreno's The Light Room, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate all feature among July's Best Reviewed Books. | Book Marks 30 horror novels to look out for in the second half of the year. | CrimeReads Here's why we should take "AI replacing novelists" off our long list of fears for the future. | Wired "In The Brothers Karamazov, narrative unfurls at the mad and authentic pace of human emotion." A (new) review of Dostoevsky's classic. | New York Times Remembering Japanese novelist Seiichi Morimura, author of Proof of the Man and The Devil's Gluttony. | Japan Times Ducks author Kate Beaton and DC Comics were the big winners of this year's Eisner Awards, held on Friday at San Diego Comic-Con. | Comics Beat Leopold Froelich explores the feud between the identical twins behind Ann Landers and Dear Abby, respectively, who popularized the American advice column. | Lapham's Quarterly "One thing leads to another. Again and again." Confessions of a self-proclaimed book hoarder. | Los Angeles Times "What makes a strong voice, and why does ChatGPT's voice so often fall flat?" Laura Hartenberger considers the writing lessons of AI. | Noema Allison Yarrow on the continued importance of the birth story. | Elle Reminder: Don't review books you haven't read. (Or, why Goodreads is garbage.) | The Atlantic The case for public reading as a social activity. | Financial Times Martin Dolan considers The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as ecofiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books "What does anyone gain from consuming near-identical stories over and over?" Sarah Manavis on the problem with TikTok's new book publishing venture. | The New Statesman 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 Peter Schurmal Wallace considers the connection between Peter Handke's writing and his politics. | The Nation Also on Lit Hub: Masha Gessen chronicles the early days of Putinism in Russia • Weird, funny, dark children's books • On Patricia Highsmith and the horror of obsession • Adam Dalva remembers his brother • How a patchwork of conflicting narratives created contemporary Eastern Europe • What does it mean to "become" a writer? • Wendy Chin-Tanner on writing a novel inspired by her father's time at Carville, a leprosy treatment center • Wang Xiaobo on the limitless mind of Italo Calvino • H.P. Lovecraft "loved this dish for its heartiness as much as for its frugality." • Terrance Hayes pays homage to the poet Lucie Brock-Broido and her immortal Maine Coon cat, Sweet William • On the men who caught the largest tuna ever recorded • Why 1990s Blackpool is the perfect setting for a queer reimagining of James Joyce's Ulysses • Mihret Sibhat considers the multitudes of our names • Why sharks need protection from humans • How a former war correspondent became a modern bootlegger • On W.E.B. Du Bois' path toward secular humanism • Crafting fiction from family heirlooms • How my library patrons helped me finish my novel • On the legendary friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge • Jonathan Galassi on the late, great Robert Gottlieb • The Best Audiobooks of July • July's Best Reviewed Fiction and Best Reviewed Nonfiction 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-july-24-28-2023/

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