Lit Hub Daily July 19, 2021
TODAY: A. J. Cronin, Scottist physician and novelist, is born.
“I arrive now at the end of this journey with a finished film that I’ll happily admit cannot do justice to the well from which it’s drawn.” David Lowery on adapting The Green Night from a poem that resists adaptation. | Lit Hub Film
Protective fragrances and plebian scents: Sarah Everts presents a brief history of perfume. | Lit Hub History
In a quest to get better at talking to strangers, Joe Keohane finds the perfect setting: a cross-country train. | Lit Hub
“How did all those people feel when the phone rang and the voice from the other side asked to speak to someone who was no longer there?” Miljenko Jergović considers the visible erasure of Croatian Jews. | Lit Hub History
Books for understanding the Bronx, featuring E.L. Doctorow, Lilliam Rivera, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Corruption in the attorney general’s office: Elie Honig the “feigned ignorance” of William Barr. | Lit Hub Politics
Love Medicine, Beloved, Luster, and more rapid-fire book recs from Kelli Jo Ford. | Book Marks “The assaults have seen the population of Gaza reimagined by Israeli military planners as blades of grass and the Israeli military as a lawnmower—a post-modern incarnation of Steinbeck’s tractor.” Max Blumental on occupation and art in Gaza. | The Markaz Review
“After we’re done worrying, we must change the way we buy books.” On the alarming implications of Amazon’s ever-growing share of the bookselling market. | Medium
On the big business of literary adaptations for television. | The Atlantic
Dine like Jane Austen with these recipes from her sister-in-law’s cookbook. | Atlas Obscura
Anuk Arudpragasam on his work, influences, and process. | The Paris Review
Tiffany McDaniel considers the books that have made an impact on her life. | Entertainment Weekly
“With women, their loneliness is often portrayed in a makeover romcom kind of way.” Kristen Radtke on loneliness, her research process, and the difference between skepticism and distrust. | Shondaland
“Once you get sober, you meet a million details demanding to be stored.” Elissa Washuta grapples with telling the story of her sobriety. | Harper’s Bazaar
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
Michael Kleber-Diggs talks about connecting to the world through poetry, on First Draft. * Listen to Stephen Lezak’s narrated essay about the Arctic—frontier, paradise, marker of human destruction—on Emergence Magazine. * David Gessner talks about channeling Thoreau throughout the pandemic, on Keen On. * A. Natasha Joukovsky on Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the myth of Narcissus, on The History of Literature.
ALSO ON LITERARY HUB
ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA’S NEWLY TRANSLATED NOVEL
Read from To Walk Alone in a Crowd (tr. Guillermo Bleichmar). |