Lit Hub Daily October 13, 2021
TODAY: In 1902, poet Arna Bontemps is born.
“Continue squeezing until all the tomatoes are gone or until you feel like Macbeth at the end of his play.” Stanley Tucci shares his grandmother’s famous tomato sauce recipe. | Lit Hub Food
Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on working at a chain bookstore in his twenties, and the frequent caller who helped make him a music critic. | Lit Hub Music
“Am I willing to write about the dead? Will the language that I make murder me?” Victoria Chang on writing into the silence. | Lit Hub Craft
Why was Truman Capote so fascinated with “fabulously rich” women? | Lit Hub
18 new books out this week that have nothing to do with kidney donation. | The Hub
“Better to prepare girls for what’s coming, no? Better to tell them the bad news first, and let them invent their own good news later.” Catherine Lacey on Life Sciences and its heroine’s doomed female lineage. | Lit Hub Criticism
Why Scotsman Daniel Sloss loves to drink fruity little cocktails in America. | Lit Hub Humor
“HANDS OFF ANGELA DAVIS.” When NOW tried (and failed) to exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance from feminist history. | Lit Hub History
Albert Samaha recommends books that capture the sprawling history of the Philippines. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
A Sport and a Pastime, Brideshead Revisited, Where the Red Fern Grows, and more rapid-fire book recs from Peter Cameron. | Book Marks
James Han Mattson recommends six novels that go beyond the literary/horror divide. | CrimeReads
WATCH: Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Chris Stuck, and Elle Nash at the Franklin Park Reading Series • Deborah Tuerkheimer on credibility and sexual misconduct • Parag Khanna on humanity’s ever-changing map • Daniel Sokatch on the chronicle of Israel and Palestine. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel 
“I am full of joy.” 103 African writers respond to Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize win. | Brittle Paper
Rachel Syme reconsiders the food writing of Laurie Colwin. | The New Yorker
Sven Birkerts reflects on what it’s like to teach in the MFA program at Bennington. | Los Angeles Review of Books
What are the most influential sci-fi books of all time? | Book Riot
Elizabeth Haigh’s cookbook publisher will not move forward with her citing allegations of plagiarism. | Eater
Exploring the film adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which is ultimately a story “about the possibility of redemption.” | Bright Wall/Dark Room
“I feel like a fool to have rooted for Dave Chappelle for so long.” Saeed Jones on watching The Closer as a gay Black man. | GQ
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
How Rita Dove cultivates her “island of the mind,” on Thresholds. * Why Alexandra Kleeman nods to Hamlet in her new novel, Something New Under the Sun, on Otherppl. * Translator Janet Hong reads from Kwon Yeo-sun’s Lemon, * Alexis Daria talks about exploring family dynamics in her new book, on Reading Women.
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