Lit Hub Daily: May 22, 2020 - Ballyhoo Magazine

TODAY: In 1927, Peter Matthiessen is born.

You’ve (almost) made it through another indistinguishable week! Why not celebrate with round nine of our personalized quarantine book recommendations? | Lit Hub
“How painful it is to think that the world might crumble.” Claire Messud on her family’s WWII correspondence. | Lit Hub History
Ridiculously rich people: they’re not just like us! (And other lessons sociologist Ashley Mears learned from partying with the wealthy). | Lit Hub Politics
“What does a writer do with her suspicion of historical records intentionally obfuscating the contributions of certain characters?” Lauren Francis-Sharma on researching historical fiction as a writer of color. | Lit Hub History
With the Olympics canceled, there’s plenty of extra time (sigh) to read up on heroic moments in sports. Elise Hooper has you covered, from the pool to the rink. | Lit Hub Sports
“Love, Under a Falling Sky.” A poem by Megan Pinto. | Lit Hub
ON THE VBC: Stephanie Danler on addiction and boundaries, on Personal Space · On Sheltering, Lydia Millet discusses writing climate change in fiction, and the elusive concept of hope · Clinton sex, Shakespeare, and dogs in bow-ties, on The Week in Books LIVE. | Lit Hub
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham, Ivy Pochoda’s These Girls, and Jonathan Bate’s Radical Wordsworth all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
“Compassion, that supreme quality in a fiction writer, is a main source of Greenwell’s power.” Sigrid Nunez on Garth Greenwell’s beloved bibliography. | NYRB
As Los Angeles bookstores begin a partial reopening, booksellers are facing c oncerns about safety. | Los Angeles Times
Zyzzyva, the “crown-jewel literary journal” of San Francisco, turns 35 this spring. | SF Weekly
If your quarantine is a little too calm, why not get your kid into Steven King? | Lifehacker
“In this season of unimaginable death, especially black and brown death, these young people rose to the occasion.” On teaching African American literature during COVI D-19. | Boston Review
An epidemiologist makes a case for integrating the humanities in discussions of public health. | Inside Higher Ed
How have Neo-Nazis weaponized the work of J.R.R. Tolkien for their purposes? | VICE