December 13, 2024 ‹
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies.
- The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of a band that transformed rock and roll forever. | Lit Hub Music
- “Something will enrage you and something will haunt you. And something will strike you as beautiful and true.” Derek Mong on finding literary inspiration in visual art. | Lit Hub Art
- “Some of us became teachers of literature because we believe it helps keep us human, even in a world of genocide.” A statement to the Modern Language Association about the BDS movement. | Lit Hub Politics
- The enduring political relevance of Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “The bullet goes right by you / a dove shakes the stars from its wings / casting peace upon your darkened way.” Read “The bullet,” a poem by Sahar Rabah, translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alclay. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Read an excerpt from Lisa Sandlin’s novel Sweet Vidalia. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Contemporary Turkish literature would look different if authors wrote soulful books like Atay’s that truly told us how it feels to live in Turkey.” Kaya Genç on Oğuz Atay. | The Point
- There’s no shortcut to publishing a book. | Defector
- Negar Azimi considers the unjustly forgotten work of Caroline Blackwood, muse to Lucien Freud and Robert Lowell, and “the author of wit-drenched books about the wages of class, women’s inhumanity to women, bitchiness, greed, abjection, family, monsters.” | The New Yorker
- Molly Templeton makes the case for seeking out small press science fiction and fantasy. | Reactor
- Even in blue states, book bans are having chilling effect on the sales of children’s books. | Los Angeles Times
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