Red Flags and Shorthand: How We Tell Asian American Stories
Say I begin this essay by bashing bubble tea. Brown sugar boba, strawberry horchata boba, protein shake boba, boba cocktails, and in some supermarkets, boba in a can: isn’t it…
Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories
Say I begin this essay by bashing bubble tea. Brown sugar boba, strawberry horchata boba, protein shake boba, boba cocktails, and in some supermarkets, boba in a can: isn’t it…
Unmasking the Hackers and Cyber Spies Who Breached Google
For several hours one early Monday afternoon in mid-December 2009, a Google intern teased apart the equivalent of a sonar blip on his screen. Someone had tripped an alarm. He…
This month, Frederick Douglass’s papers will be made available to the public.
February 11, 2021, 2:22pm Exciting news! The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is currently in the process of digitizing the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass…
Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.
February 11, 2021, 1:54pm What’s something that isn’t literary but feels literary? An 18,000-year-old conch shell was discovered in a cave in France, and now, we can listen to its…
This passage from Calvino is basically the first Instagram ad targeted at millennials (me).
February 11, 2021, 1:44pm Last night, I was toggling between reading If on a winter’s night a traveler and scrolling through Instagram. This is not a judgement on the novel,…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s next book is coming this May.
February 11, 2021, 10:03am This morning, Reagan Arthur, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Knopf, announced Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s next book, Notes on Grief. The book, which Knopf will publish…
The National Book Foundation has found its next Executive Director.
February 11, 2021, 8:36am Today, the National Book Foundation announced that Ruth Dickey will be its next Executive Director, filling the role that Lisa Lucas vacated at the end of…
Lit Hub Daily: February 11, 2021
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1910, Ursula Todd is born for the first (and second, and tenth) time, in Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.…
How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers
At its root, the role of advertising is to generate a sense of longing and desire in the hearts and the minds of consumers. When done well, this ubiquitous marketing…