Lit Hub Daily August 26, 2021
TODAY: In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Thomas Carlyle, beginning 38 years of (bromantic) correspondence.
“If real estate is a self-portrait and a class portrait, it is also a body arranging its limbs to seduce.” Deborah Levy on finding a house of one’s own. | Lit Hub
Possibility made real: Tina M. Campt takes a close look at the historic all-Black towns of Oklahoma. | Lit Hub Photography
“I believe in acting shamelessly but I also believe in apologizing afterward.” Wayne Koestenbaum’s advice for the graduating class of Bennington College (and the rest of us). | Lit Hub
Jaye Viner recommends books about women leaving the confines of strict religious communities. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“‘Write when the baby writes,’ I mutter to myself every day, a play on the worst advice ever.” Ellen O’Connell on reading Doireann Ní Ghríofa and finding literary spaces as a new mother. | Lit Hub Parenting
Geo Maher considers what abolition truly looks like: not just a dismantling but also a radical reconstruction. | Lit Hub Politics
Ron Charles on The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Ryu Spaeth on W. G. Sebald, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks Caroline Blackwood was much more than a muse, writes Virginia Feito: she was one of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived. | CrimeReads
WATCH: Ned Johnson and William R. Stixrud on how to talk to teenagers · Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in conversation with Joshua Henkin. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel 
“Why do such singular stories of abuse capture the American imagination of Islam at large?” Audrey Clare Farley considers the impact of Western bestsellers about the suffering of Muslim women. | The New Republic
Emily Gould considers how things have changed since Jonathan Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer first appeared on the literary scene. | Vanity Fair
Mychal Denzel Smith on the everlasting impact of Aaliyah. | Harper’s Bazaar
A look at the “growing national movement of abolitionist library workers who want law enforcement out of libraries.” | In These Times
Cheryl Strayed and Alison Bechdel discuss quests both physical and spiritual, literary transcendentalists, and the gendered history of exercise. | The Believer
Patricia Thang digs into the narrative structure of kishōtenketsu along with contemporary authors that have followed it. | Book Riot
“For me, something exists more once I write it down.” Alexandra Kleeman talks about the relationship between writing practice and reflection. | The Creative Independent
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
Hanif Adurraqib on the 2002 film Brown Sugar and the boundaries of friendship, on Open Form. * Nawaaz Ahmed discusses Islam, sexuality, politics, and publishing his first novel, on Fiction/Non/Fiction. * Matthew Salesses on imposition and representation in crafting fiction, on The Maris Review. * A conversation with Charles Person, the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, on Book Dreams. * George Packer on the inequalities made blatant amid COVID-19, on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady. * James and Al discuss WWII’s canoe-centric Special Boat Service, on We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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