Lit Hub Daily: August 1, 2024

By Lit Hub Daily on August 1, 2024

TODAY: In 1965, Frank Herbert's Dune is published.

Natalie Zutter recommends new sci-fi and fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson, Madeline Ashby, Beth Revis, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Get ready for multigenerational sagas, graphic novels, and Emily Dickinson: these new children's books are coming this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
"The idea of Palestinians as ghosts—haunting history, the land, Israelis themselves—runs through Hammad's novel." 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
Verse lovers rejoice! August brings poetry collections from Rae Armantrout, Daniel Borzutzky, Andrea Cohen, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
This is the literary film and TV you need to stream in August. | Lit Hub Film
"Yesterday evening, I discovered a secret passageway under my bed." Read from Djuna's story collection Everything Good Dies Here, translated by Adrian Thieret. | Lit Hub Fiction
Chris Heath considers the interpersonal nuances of "write what you know." | Vulture
"As a thirty-six-year-old progressive, I was an outlier in this crowd. But, like many, I was a believer." Jason Katz takes you inside the fourth annual Great Florida Bigfoot Conference. | The Paris Review
How Parable of the Sower predicted our climate predicament: "When she created her dystopia, Butler didn't need to invent much of anything." | Grist
How book bans affect indigenous authors. | NPR
A new development in SEO hell: Wix wants you to fill the internet with more slush content by letting its AI write blog posts for you. | The Verge
What color is night? Rebecca Boyle explores a very poetic question. | Atlas Obscura