April 5, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub

TODAY: In 1856, of Booker T. Washington is born.  

• Timothy Schaffert and Eric Schnall discuss how the AIDS crisis changed queer storytelling. | Lit Hub Criticism
• California, here we come. Kelly Marie Coyne revisits The OC  and considers society’s lethal obsession with the white starlet. | Lit Hub TV
• “In that space, the voices—like the birds in my backyard—come to visit…” Myriam J.A. Chancy on writing as an act of conjuring. | Lit Hub Craft

• Constance Debré on learning to love women: “I thought, A woman is something I had never imagined. Something more bare and more raw than a man.” | Lit Hub Memoir

• What awaits humanity on the moon? Christopher Cokinos explores the possibilities and pitfalls of lunar settlement. | Lit Hub Science

• Jane Ciabattari talks to Greg Sarris about writing to remember our responsibility to each other. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Carys Davies’ Clear, Becca Rothfeld’s All Things Are Too Small, Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse, and Julia Alvarez’s The Cemetery of Untold Stories all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• “The thought of Dr. Lucas in Cuba clouded the May Day march for Gabriel.” Read from Lily Mayer’s new novel, Short War. | Lit Hub Fiction
• What do kaiju movies, philosophy, and the military industrial complex have to do with each other? Everything, it turns out. | Public Books
• Remembering Maya Angelou on her birthday. | The Nation
• “Who is captive in this story, to whom, to what?” Lori Marso gives Christine Smallwood’s writing on Chantal Ackerman a deep read. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• What afrofuturism can teach us about climate activism. | JSTOR Daily
• Should writers include AI transparency statements in their books? Kester Brewin makes a case for yes. | The Guardian
• On weird fiction, girlhood, and Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot. | The Baffler