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Lit Hub Daily

September 3, 2021

In 1820, American journalist and author Lucretia Peabody Hale is born.

TODAY: In 2001, Pauline Kael, American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, dies at 82.

The literary film and TV you should stream in September includes Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Romeo + Juliet, the 1990 It, and more. | Lit Hub TV

“If a woman writer behaved like J.D. Salinger, chances are she would be maligned as neglectful, monstrous.” Olivia Campbell explores what it takes to balance art and motherhood in America. | Lit Hub Parenting

Considering Hollywood’s archetype of academia as compared to The Chair, which captures a professoriate “in the middle of a flaming crisis.” | Lit Hub TV

Kaia Alderson recommends seven books to learn more about the Black women who served in the Women’s Army Corp during WWII. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Stephen King’s Billy Summers, Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties, and Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun are among August’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks

Olivia Rutigliano on voyeurism, bloody murder, and spectacle in the new Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. | CrimeReads

On Keen On, Michael Pye discusses the rise and fall of Antwerp as a “world city.” | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

Daniel A. Gross digs into the business of library e-books. | The New Yorker

“Loving a thing and demonstrating, performing, displaying your love for that thing—these things can be decoupled.” Molly Templeton considers reading slumps. | Tor

How do you go back to teaching in the midst of grief? | Catapult

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses identity, queer relationships, and the intersections of geopolitical and interpersonal violence. | Shondaland

Lee Lai talks about queer child care, the importance of breakups, and the peach-walnut dichotomy. | Hazlitt

A new book digs into how the field of publishing has faced down the “great technological revolution of our time.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Leah Drayton looks at the Green Book, published in 1937, that helped Black travelers safely navigate New York City. | Gothamist

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Open Source delves into the “collective delusion” of the War in Afghanistan.

Mary Martin Devlin discusses scandal and monarchy in

18th-century France, on the New Books Network.

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