Lit Hub Daily January 13, 2022
TODAY: In 1893, Clark Ashton Smith is born.
“I’m gonna die if I have to write another one of these.” Jami Attenberg talks to Maris Kreizman about making the jump from fiction to memoir. | The Maris Review
Stories vs. Ideas? David Hollander on finding something deeply personal in the philosophical novel. | Lit Hub Criticism
“The true story of the diary’s composition reveals how much thought and effort Anne put into writing something that would have meaning to readers in the future—us.” Leigh Stein on reading Anne Frank in quarantine. | Lit Hub
Miscommunication, misunderstanding, and missed opportunities: Lewis R. Gordon on talking about Black consciousness. | Lit Hub
Matthew Eng reframes The Postman Always Rings Twice—and its three film adaptations—from a “dark and torrid tale” to a love story. | Lit Hub Film
Peter Mann on the wild boy gangs of Weimar Berlin. | CrimeReads
“‘High-Risk.’ Was I that? What did those words even mean?” Edgar Gomez on sex, desire, and going on PrEP. | Lit Hub Memoir
Andrea Long Chu on Hanya Yanagihara, Claire Dederer on Jami Attenberg, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
WATCH: Cynthia Dewi Oka and Jenny Zhang chat about writing and honoring the unassimilable at Greenlight Bookstore. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel 
“Reading A Little Life, one can get the impression that Yanagihara is somewhere high above with a magnifying glass, burning her beautiful boys like ants.” Andrea Long Chu considers Hanya Yanagihara’s novels and her relationship to her gay male characters. | Vulture
“When readers look to writings in other languages, what do they seek?” Angie Chau on the under-translated biji wenxue genre—Chinese literature of daily life. | Public Books
Casey Cep explores Tema Stauffer’s photographs of the real places that gave rise to Southern fictions. | The New Yorker
“There’s a kind of necessary amnesia that sets in after you finish writing a novel. Like childbirth, you must forget; the future requires it of you.” Sara Freeman on writing something new. | Granta
Jessica Swoboda and Kamran Javadizadeh kick off Criticism in Public, The Point’s new series speaking to “public writing, academic scholarship and literary criticism.” | The Point
Cara Blue Adams breaks down a linked story collection’s ability to “shine a light on specific moments in a character’s life without necessarily needing to create connective tissue between them.” | BOMB
Alafair Burke highlights books on amnesia and human memory. | The Guardian
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