Lit Hub Daily August 31, 2021
TODAY: In 1919, Amrita Pritam, Indian novelist, essayist, and poet, is born.
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“Lee’s prose has an edge that cuts through cant.” A 1960 review of To Kill a Mockingbird. | Book Marks Stephen Graham Jones on the evolution of the slasher film and its central figure—the final girl. | CrimeReads WATCH: Julie Battilana talks to Andrew Keen about how power can be used for good. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel 
“Blackness has become a metaphor for a certain kind of societal categorization—one that I believe deserves to be given its full positive due.” Teju Cole on his recent essay collection and creative precision. | Art in America
Brandon Taylor discusses short stories, creative choices, and realism. | The Adroit Journal
A guide to the most important locations in the Sally Rooneyverse. | EW
“Critical race theory is not an indoctrination; it is an education—an inquiry, contestation, and clarification about the stakes and politics of knowledge.” Brittney Cooper on the true potential of CRT. | The Cut
Summer Kim Lee reviews Anthony Veasna So, whose stories “live in what is missed and missing elsewhere.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Senjuti Patra recommends the best of bibliomemoirs. | Book Riot
How will post-Brexit changes to the copyright system affect authors in the UK? | The Independent
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Mona Awad talks about the duality and universality of Shakespeare, * William Pei Shih reads from “The Enlightenment,” on Storybound. * Yuval Taylor describes Zora Neale Hurston’s initial critical reception, on Big Table.
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