The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1952, Amy Tan is born.
- Kate Sidley on writing in the aftermath of a home robbery: “When bad things happen, they happen off-page, out of sight, and with a certain delicacy.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Lockdown may be over, but what did it to to our collective sense of balance? How the pandemic ruined our understanding of “free” time. | Lit Hub Technology
- “phosphorus like white blessings. our generational curse is being bad at foresight.” Read “DOE PROBLEMS,” a poem by Kevin Latimer from the collection SOUP. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Casey Johnston makes a persuasive case for bringing back chairs in bookstores. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “It was her longing to move on to whatever was to come—a show, a recording session, a television appearance—that allowed her to cling to her unwavering sense of hope.” On Billie Holiday’s last live performance. | Lit Hub Biography
- “The television’s dark screen is dotted with fingerprints because back when the TV was working Uncle liked to press his fat index finger to it, and although the TV doesn’t work anymore Uncle goes on looking at the dark screen until I bring him his dinner, as if he could still see some trace of his favorite shows in that void.” Read from Rebecca Gisler’s new novel, About Uncle. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Neil McRobert recommends twelve books for fans of True Detective: Night Country. | Vulture
- Three visual poems on memory and sleep by Dario Roberto Dioli. | 3:AM Magazine
- “Personally, I always let the pool boy say his lines to the bored housewife because I enjoy this artifice in the same way I do the lead-up to a real kiss: no matter what’s said, I know what’s going to happen.” Three writers on porn. | The Paris Review
- Alex Brown highlights the latest in short speculative fiction. | Reactor
- Jake Zawlacki interviews Dave McKean about “comics, dreams, AI, creativity, puppets, intention, semiotics, aesthetics, and no less than the meaning of life.” | The Comics Journal
- An interview with Kelly Link: “Stripped down, psychologically astute realistic fiction is all well and good, but I wanted to write ghost stories and science fiction and fairytales.” | The Guardian
