March 5, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub

TODAY: Italian novelist, playwright, journalist and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano is born. Flaiano is perhaps best known for his work with Federico Fellini. 

• Caroline Carlson recommends ten new books out in March for children of all ages. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “To you, mind you. Always, / Even if not / Or not facially.” Read a poem by Nam Le from his new collection, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. | Lit Hub Poetry
• “Instantly I decided: The notebook was magic.” Cristina Henriquez on the unexpected power of getting (and almost losing) a notebook. | Lit Hub Craft

• Mary Morris on her long friendship with Russell Banks: “I grew up with Russell—as a writer, as a teacher and thinker, and as a friend.” | Lit Hub Memoir

• What’s “the fragmented art history book?” Dalya Benor discusses the problems with the high-concept hybrid taking over the literary world. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Keith Haring, Helen Oyeyemi, Xochitl Gonzalez, and more! These twenty-five new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “I lost my left arm today. It came off clean at the shoulder.” Read from Anne de Marcken’s new novel, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “In the book and in general, these things are not what you think they are.” Merve Emre interviews Rachel Cusk. | The Yale Review
• Nicholas Russell talks to book critic Becca Rothfeld about artistic discernment, critical approaches, and the video essayist ContraPoints. | Defector
• “Negative reviews of Volume Two were not shy about wielding racism in their criticism.” On the poet José Garcia Villa. | JSTOR Daily
• Jennifer Wilson interviews Helen Oyeyemi: “Tell everyone I’m coming to you from the void.” | The New Yorker
• Erik Davis on the “carnivalesque” Institute for Illegal Images and the case for blotter paper as art with historical context. | The Paris Review
• Scott Sherman in conversation with Edwin Frank, the editorial director of the NYRB Classics: “Well, it does seem to me that everything that makes journalism of the moment conspires against subsequent accessibility.” | The Point