Lit Hub Daily September 20, 2021
TODAY: In 1878, Upton Sinclair is born.
“We had death threats. The kids were told that they were never going to get into college.” Dave Zirin on Colin Kaepernick and the first high school team to take a knee. | Lit Hub Sports
Nathaniel Philbrick retraces the steps of George Washington’s incognito presidential tour to Long Island. | Lit Hub History
“With Tišma, there is nothing ludic; his is a world beyond pleasure, beyond distraction.” David Rieff on Aleksandar Tišma’s third Holocaust novel, Kapo. | Lit Hub Criticism
Talk that plays like tennis: Dan O’Brien has some thoughts on how characters should speak. | Lit Hub Craft
Steven Reign on using research and documentary poetry to tell the real story of David Acer and AIDS panic in 1990s Florida. | Lit Hub
Aruni Kashyap on his introduction to and appreciation for the testimonio genre, a tool for “challenging the modern colonial state.” | Lit Hub Craft
Native Son, 2666, Don Quixote, and more rapid-fire book recs from Héctor Tobar. | Book Marks 
“These stories have survived the centuries because of their enduring appeal to something fundamental about our human nature.” On the pleasures of mythological reimaginings. | Esquire
Here are 75 queer and feminist books to read this fall. | Autostraddle
On the eroticism of Sally Rooney’s novels. | The Cut
Dylan Onderdonk-Snow considers death and the divine in Knausgaard’s recent work. | Soft Punk
Teresa Carmody discusses how to define autotheory, which can take the form of “performance, image, photography, video, or digital practice.” | LARB
Dig into the history of bookmobiles with these photos from The New York Times’ archive. | The New York Times
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
Kevin McIlvoy discusses how the novel can make room for dynamic crowding, on First Draft.
On the parallels between Henry James’s relationships and his short story “The Beast in the Jungle,” on The History of Literature.
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