Literature

TODAY: In 1908, Salvadoran poet Vicente Acosta dies on his birthday. Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s relationship to her deck. | Lit Hub Criticism How the expectation that “books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as lifestyle objects” influences cover design in the social media era. | Lit Hub Design
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What’s also concerning is how many lawmakers and board officials desire to make–or have made–these “tools” necessary ones for professionals to use to do their jobs. York County Library in South Carolina, for example, cites RatedBooks as one of the reputable sources library workers should use to make collection decisions (something that the partisan-designed site
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1886, Hella Wuolijoki is born. Why writing alt text image descriptions is an act of literary translation. | Lit Hub Technology April Dávila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to conquer it). | Lit Hub Craft How Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
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Beloved Japanese author Haruki Murakami will publish a new memoir this fall. Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story will be published by Knopf, and it will be translated into English by Philip Gabriel. The memoir expands upon an essay published by Murakami in The New Yorker from 2019 called “Abandoning a Cat.” The memoir will
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Hide by Kiersten White Get This Deal $3.99 Dominion by Addie C. Citchens Get This Deal $2.99 Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade Get This Deal $1.99 The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.) Get This Deal $2.99 The Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart Get This
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1930, Brazilian poet, playwright, and novelist Hilda Hilst is born. Why more retellings of the Odyssey should center women: “We are like Penelope, unraveling Homer’s tale for our own purposes.” | Lit Hub Criticism How Jean-Paul Sartre and other French intellectuals came to embrace Marxism, to the
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A comprehensive education on American culinary traditions has to include African American foodways. Needless to say, there is no one culture that defines American cuisine. From the crops grown by Indigenous peoples to the ingredients brought to the U.S. by immigrants seeking a taste of home, the library of American recipes is contained in a
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“If he had simply gone back to Austin when he was summoned to stand trial, he would have been acquitted.” This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Famously, O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), author of “The Gift of the Magi,” and one of the most
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Rebecca is channeling a bard, Jeff’s referencing multiple epics, Vanessa’s making noises about the score. The nerd factor is turned all the way up today, because we’ve all officially seen The Odyssey. We always do the homework here at Book Riot, and we won’t even try to pretend that we don’t love it when the
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