Lit Hub Daily: March 1, 2024

Lit Hub Daily

March 1

TODAY: Ralph Ellison is born in 1914.

"These stories breathed with lungs that the ones sitting in the gymnasium didn't have. They pulsed, beating like a drum." Melissa Blair on writing the anti-colonial fantasy she always wanted as a child. | Lit Hub Criticism
Natalie Zutter recommends the best sci-fi and fantasy for March, including Natasha Pulley, Lee Mandelo, Téa Obreht, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
"What sets Taffa's memoir apart is its study of the political, racial and ancestral forces that shape a life." 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Catherine Lacey, Eleanor Catton, and that's just the beginning. These titles are out in paperback this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
If it feels like there's nothing new left for you to stream, don't worry. Here's a selection of the literary film and TV coming to streaming in March. | Lit Hub Film
"On the bus ride home, I thought about what 'challenges' I had faced in my life. It was an odd exercise." Read from Andrew Boryga's new novel, Victim. | Lit Hub Fiction
Architects Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti in conversation with Julien Crockett about sensible cities and hybrid physical and digital spaces. | Los Angeles Review of Books
"Such a collective practice eschews competitiveness to 'make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all acts of criticism.'" On the language of women's land, and its evolution. | Public Books
What happens when we run out of land? Here are five solutions from science fiction. | Reactor
On Dune and building fictional languages for literature. | The New Yorker
Colin Ainsworth visits Chip and Joanna Gaines' new Waco hotel to check in on Larry McMurtry's library. | The Paris Review
"I felt I was smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual." Amitava Kumar on writing a novel with pictures. | Hazlitt