Lit Hub Weekly: August 14-18, 2023

Literature

TODAY: In 1631, John Dryden, England’s first Poet Laureate, is born.   

Also on Lit Hub:

Barbie fashion designer Carol Spencer on finding her way to Mattel • Bette Adriaanse muses on the stories we tell about wealth, poverty, and inequality • How systemic barriers keep the formerly incarcerated from rebuilding their lives • Who really invented the selfie? • Jennifer C. Nash on losing time with dementia • Matthew Teague on the indictment in Georgia • Ed Simon on drinking, original sin, and Paradise Lost • David Shih reflects on reading and writing like an Asian American • How to capture the emotional center of a novel with a book cover • What it’s like to direct the legendary director Werner Herzog… as he narrates your AI poetry collection • Was Tolstoy an enemy of love? • Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine trilogy as an antidote to climate change despair • Michaele Weissman on food, marriage, and identity • Rebecca Bengal traces an accidental life in photography • Peace Adzo Medie reflects on writing about violence against women in West Africa • Jenna Clake on learning the craft of fiction by working in a call center • Doting moms, little societies, and other endearing cockroach traits • Temi Oh in praise of (neuro)science fiction



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