Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2020
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1961, The Agony And The Ecstasy by Irving Stone is published.
- THESE TIMES: Lit Hub editor Jonny Diamond on literary community in a time of global pandemic · Ysabelle Cheung on trying to write in Hong Kong during the rise of the novel coronavirus · Italian editor Sara Reggiani on life in lock-down. | Lit Hub Coronavirus Coverage
- “The houses they live in confound any attempt to be known and mapped, understood.” Jane Healey on the secret corridors and impossible floorplans of gothic manors. | Lit Hub
- Sugar and sex in the American imagination: Monique Truong explores what it means when we call women “sweet.” | Lit Hub
- The unlikely story of how America’s oldest bookstore has survived since 1745(!) | Lit Hub History
- Manifesta authors Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards talk Jane Eyre, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, and more. | Book Marks
- A massive Pablo Neruda archive consisting of more than 600 books, photos, magazines, letters, and postcards will go on sale in Barcelona next week. | The Guardian
- From immigrant farm workers to taxi drivers, “social poetry” workshops in New York are addressing some of today’s most pressing economic concerns. | In These Times
- “This could not come at a worse time.” What it’s like to promote a new book during a pandemic. | Electric Literature
- Some colleges that closed their campuses due to the coronavirus pandemic are grappling with what to do about refunds. | Inside Higher Ed
- Here’s a list of authors whose tours have been canceled due to coronavirus, if you’d like to support them by buying books. | Bookshop
- If it makes you feel any better, David Chang hasn’t finished Infinite Jest, either. | The New York Times
- “Hamilton led readers on a journey that often-times challenged them to tap into to the furthest corners of their imagination.” Reflections on the life of Virginia Hamilton. | Vibe
Also on Lit Hub: Gerald Posner: six lessons from decades of investigative reporting • On the unexpectedly subversive world of romance novels • Read an excerpt from Paul Lynch’s new novel Beyond the Sea.
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