TODAY: In 1958, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is published by William Heinemann.
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“The term ‘Internet Literature’ seems perfectly designed to divide us, but we’re getting it all wrong.” Shya Scanlon on our love-hate relationship with that new, wobbly genre. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Laura Raicovich considers Nan Goldin’s protest against the Sacklers, the myth of neutrality in our cultural spaces, and what accountability means for museums. | Lit Hub Politics
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Lament, or coach? Elyssa Friedland on what to do when your student’s a better writer than you are. | Lit Hub Teaching
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“My mother made curtains because there were windows right in front of her, windows that needed dressing. I looked around my home, around my kitchen, and I wrote into that space.” Krys Malcolm Belc on gender, parenthood, and loving through providing. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Veronica Esposito reflects on lessons in intergenerational feminism from Michelle Orange’s Pure Flame. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“Suddenly, I realized what lay at the heart of my struggle: I was aiming to please an audience whose native language and cultural experience were fundamentally different from mine.” Dariel Suarez on writing fiction as a non-native English speaker. | Lit Hub
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Beat the heat with these 21 crime movies set during sweltering city summers. From Olivia Rutligliano. | CrimeReads
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David Klion on George Packer, Haley Mlotek on Joan Didion, Kerri Greenidge on Clint Smith, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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WATCH: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Brandon Hobson, Elissa Washuta, and Dani Putney perform at the Franklin Park Reading Series. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
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Hannah Kauders on translating Iván Monalisa Ojeda’s Las Biuty Queens. | Words Without Borders
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“I wonder: what, now, in the Anthropocene, is the point of reading?” Daegan Miller reads The Porch and considers the possibilities of nature writing. | Guernica
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Please… my field of Dante studies… she’s very sick. Or: the problems with—and solution to—the current state of Dante studies. | Public Books
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Louise Kennedy and Sarah Moss discuss national identity, disappointing holidays, and art deco china. | Granta
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“The valorization of people like [George] Floyd, Gianna [Floyd], and now Darnella with her Pulitzer prize as martyrs instead of victims of state violence acts only to individualize these tragedies.” Hanna Phifer on what it means to give a Pulitzer Prize to Darnella Frazier. | Refinery29
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Here’s how Los Angeles’ indie bookstores have been surviving the pandemic. | Los Angeles Times
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“Our job in the LGBTQ press is to make sure members of our community know what is going on.” Tammye Nash talks about working for LGBTQ media. | PEN America
Also on Lit Hub: Matthew Norman’s most embarrassing literary encounters (so far) • A poem by Ariana Brown • Read from Iván Monalisa Ojeda’s newly translated collection, Las Biuty Queen (trans. Hannah Kauders)