Lit Hub Daily: August 29, 2023

Lit Hub Daily

Aug 29

TODAY: In 1992, English children's book author Mary Norton, best known for the Borrowers series, dies at 88.

How legendary editor George Weidenfeld got Nabokov's Lolita published in an era of obscenity laws. | Lit Hub History
20 new books to pick up from your local indie. | The Hub
Against monoliths: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto on the many ways to tell a Hawaiian story. | Lit Hub
"I'd rather have a flux than a period, I think. At least nouns like flux and flow can be turned into usable verbs." On the etymology of periods. | Lit Hub
What to read when you're expecting (a baby). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Louise Hare recommends 7 great crime novels set in Harlem. | CrimeReads
Helen Lewis digs into the absurdity of blurbs (and coins the unforgettable term blurblejerk.) | The Atlantic
Deanna Kreisel details some ghostly encounters of the literary kind. | 3 Quarks
"Chagrin, in Margo Jefferson's hands, is a flashlight aimed down a dark path, illuminating the way forward." R.E. Hawley on criticism after #MeToo. | The Point
Lincoln Michel considers the similarities and differences between fantastic modes, from surrealism to contemporary fantasy. | Counter Craft
"It's the falling out of love that moves the narrative forward, because singledom, as Rachel quips, is where plot exists." Dilara O'Neil on Nora Ephron's divorce plot. | The Nation