Lit Hub Weekly: January 11 – 15, 2021

Literature

TODAY: In 1900, Kiku Amino, Japanese author and translator of English and Russian literature, is born.

Also on Lit Hub:

Rebecca Solnit on September 11th, January 6th, and the choices we face as a nation.
Karl Ove Knausgaard on the genius of Ingmar Bergman • Michael Farris Smith on the genesis of his fascination with Nick Carraway • The writer’s work is finding out how delightful they are on the page, and other (delightful) revelations from George Saunders • Sarah Moss on the wandering life of the itinerant writer • Mateo Askaripour makes a case for writing fast • Madeleine Watts on the evolution of nature writing • Will Self kicks off a new series on how—and why—we read • Samantha Tucker considers how last weeks attempted coup will be taught as history • William J. Bernstein on the evolutionary origins of collective delusion • Yiyun Li on Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, about her stay in a Chicago psychiatric hospital • Amanda Mei Kim reflects on growing up on the road as a daughter of tenant farmers • On Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s handwritten statement from Big Rock jail •  To write a modern climate change novel, Claire Holroyde centered the people most at risk • Amanda Page on parachute journalism and its opposite • Martha Cooley on the uses of boredom • Jamie Harrison on foods role in fiction • Olga Mecking recommends the Dutch art of doing nothing • Kim Echlin on teaching English lit in the wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Best of Book Marks:

In honor of his birthday, a classic review of Martin Luther King Jr.s Stride Toward FreedomPride and Prejudice, The Velveteen Rabbit, and more rapid-fire book recs from Gish Jen • Is Philip Roth’s Portnoys Complaint the dirtiest literary novel ever published? • “The most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness”: Edmund Wilson’s 1922 review of James Joyce’s Ulysses • New titles from George Saunders, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Barry, and Nadia Owusu all feature among the Best Reviewed Books
of the Week

New on CrimeReads:

Sulari Gentill on crime fiction’s most unbreakable rule: you can kill anyone but the dog • Nick Petrie with nine great science fiction thrillers • Christopher Fowler on why comedy is crucial in crime writing • The 15 best crime and mystery TV shows of 2020, from Olivia Rutigliano • Lee Child and Paraic O’Donnell on moral codes, punching Nazis, and human evolution • Kimberly Truhler examines the iconic outfits of Gene Tierney as Laura • Emma Rous looks at 10 of the best dinner parties in modern fiction • Victoria Gosling knows that diamonds are the ultimate macguffins • The Mona Lisa wasn’t really all that famous until it was stolen in 1911 • Ben Machell on the British student-turned-bank-robber who became a modern-day Robin Hood



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