[New post] Lit Hub Daily: August 1, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "I am not ashamed to take what joy I can in writing, it is neither a little joy nor a small solace, it is enormous." Read Mary Ruefle's commencement address to the Bennington Writing Seminars. | Lit Hub What conventional wisdom gets wrong a" Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: August 1, 2022 Lit Hub Daily Aug 1 TODAY: In 1819, Herman Melville is born in New York City.   "I am not ashamed to take what joy I can in writing, it is neither a little joy nor a small solace, it is enormous." Read Mary Ruefle's commencement address to the Bennington Writing Seminars. | Lit Hub What conventional wisdom gets wrong about cancer. | Lit Hub Science Jenny Bhatt considers Dhumketu's pioneering short stories and the politics of translation—"a disruptive intervention and glorious revival." | Lit Hub Aimee Bender on stones as secret-keepers, in literature and in life. | Lit Hub Ella Risbridger muses on the pain-writing-money trifecta, Nora Ephron's Heartburn, and memoir as fiction. | Lit Hub "I don't think I have got my head round the import of what is going on. Yet I do know that this war has a significance beyond most stories I've reported." Lindsey Hilsum shares her letters home from Ukraine during the first weeks of the invasion. | Granta A look at how The Master and Margarita "emerged intact from the calamitous flame of Soviet censorship." | JSTOR Daily Joe Pompeo examines what's at stake in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Penguin Random House. | Vanity Fair 20 queer books coming out later this year. | Book Riot Michael Pollan talks about researching caffeine, opium, and psychedelic drugs for his work. | Oregon Public Broadcasting "I have always viewed writing fiction as moral work, but never before had it felt so urgent." Akhil Sharma on revising his first published novel. | The New Yorker Also on Lit Hub: To write fiction with a psychotherapist's mind • Read "Ninth Sign of Zodiac," a poem by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko • Read from Juan José Millás' newly translated novel, Let No One Sleep (tr. Thomas Bunstead) Comment Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Literary Hub. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-august-1-2022/ Powered by Jetpack