Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2023
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Penance This book is an examination of the 2016 murder of teenager Joan Wilson by three girls attending the same…
Penance
The following is from Eliza Clark’s Penance. A native of Newcastle, Clark lives in London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. She works in social media marketing and…
23 new books in paperback out this October!
September 29, 2023, 5:00am The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn, and that means that it’s now October, a month that can signal chills on the thermometer…
Wildfires and Vanishing Coastlines: Rosanna Xia and Lizzie Johnson on Turning Their Climate Reporting into Books
Deep into my writing spiral in the fall of 2021, just when I was about to give up on turning my reporting at the Los Angeles Times into a book-length…
Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute
Everyone loves a good meet cute. It’s the reason we wait with bated breath in the movies, exhale a sigh of relief when we reach a certain page in a…
How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself
“This is not the end of an incident, but just the beginning. Lies written in ink cannot cover up facts written in blood. Blood debts must be repaid in kind.…
Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The sext, even more than short stories or poems or novels, is the ultimate plea for a reader’s attention. Stakes are rarely…
How Iowa City, Hub of Literature, Became a Landmark for Cinephiles
The literary world knows Iowa City as home to America’s first creative writing program and a UNESCO City of Literature, but it’s also a landmark city for cinephiles. In the…
Listen to a Future Fable from Stephen Graham Jones: “The Three Golden Nails”
A new volume of succinct yet stirring stories arrives with the second season of Future Fables. Exploring how the ancient fable form may bring us replenishment, comfort and perhaps guidance…
September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Jonathan Raban’s Father and Son, Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man, and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month Brought to you by Book…