Lit Hub Daily: February 1, 2024

Lit Hub Daily

February 1

TODAY: In 1884, the first Oxford English Dictionary is published by James A.H. Murray.

Amanda Chemeche talks to Alex Auder, daughter of Warhol Superstar Viva Hoffman, about growing up in the Chelsea Hotel and memories of a different New York. | Lit Hub
"What strikes me is that…even the experts don't always understand what they're looking at." On how much scientists still don't know about tornados. | Lit Hub
What's on Diana Khoi Nguyen's nightstand? "A mixed pile of works I'm encountering for the first time, rereading, or purposefully savoring so as to extend the exquisiteness of each page." | Lit Hub
The marriage between digital surveillance companies and federal agencies like ICE is putting immigrant rights on the line. | Lit Hub
Literary film and TV are sweeping the screens in February. | Lit Hub
"In a world where tech billionaires dominate so much of our culture, it's troubling to see books treated like mere vessels for self-betterment." Maris Kreizman asks why tech bros think books need to be saved. | Lit Hub
"It's hard to save thousands by pounds and pennies. It's harder to send what you've scratched together to a country on fire." Read from Leo Vardiashvili's new novel, Hard by a Great Forest. | Lit Hub Fiction
You might find your next favorite title on your school district's banned book list. | The Los Angeles Times
"The second tallest building west of the Mississippi is San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, whose resemblance to a dildo or penis is often noted." Rebecca Solnit on the devastation wrought upon San Francisco by the Silicon Valley crowd. | London Review of Books
Verse lovers, rejoice. After four years, Poets House has reopened. | Publishers Weekly
"There has never been a worse time to be a UFO skeptic." You know you want to read Nicholson Baker on this latest bout of alien fever. | NY Mag
A proposed bill would make Utah public school teachers criminally liable if banned books are found in their classrooms. | The Salt Lake Tribune
"Stagg is not a doomer. She does feel the energy, and seeks it out; some of her friends are still making art in New York, and taking risks to do so." James Duesterberg on Natasha Stagg's millennial realism. | The Point