October 14 – 18, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub

October 14 – 18, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub
Literature

TODAY: In 1745, Jonathan Swift dies. 

Also on Lit Hub:

The importance of labor movements to AmericansJoyce Carol Oates on writing her nostalgic novel, Broke Heart Blues • History’s most unexpectedly (in)famous cook, Typhoid Mary • On losing a sister to forced separationMosab Abu Toha’s reading list • Why “at its core, science is about playing with stuff…” • How the safety of a public library helped Brittany Rogers embrace queerness • The importance and responsibility of writing “the other” • Kate Hamilton recommends books about complicated desireAre you the asshole if you’re annoyed by a writer friend who doesn’t write? • Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee on queer Appalachian life • What the story of Richard II and Henry IV can teach us about power • How queer fiction was shaped by a research trip to South Dakota • Bruna Dantas Lobato recommends books about making a home in a new country • The unique challenges of writing biographies of women • The failings of the American healthcare system • On The Lit Hub Podcast, the gang gets into spooky season reads • How to pop the question with hot chocolate and pink champagne marshmallows • Emily J. Orlando considers the interior designs of Edith Wharton •  Towards a new poetics of illness and healing • 5 book reviews you need to read this week • Rebecca Nagle on the link between writing and fiber artsHow the “grand tour” shaped generations of 19th-century elites • Gary J. Bass recommends books on the Asian experience of World War II • The best reviewed books of the week



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