[Vwoolf] Fwd: Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2020–re: death of Leonard Woolf

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> Date: August 15, 2020 at 11:13:13 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd:  Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2020
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> re: Leonard Woolf
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> Subject: Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2020
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> Lit Hub Daily
> August 14, 2020
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> TODAY: In 1969, editor, publisher, and husband of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, dies.
> 
> Can the essay still surprise us? Suzanne Conklin Akbari reconsiders a Eurocentric tradition. | Lit Hub Criticism
> “If fiction has the power to show us another individual’s private and interior uniqueness, then why not depict animals possessing such interiority?” Kathleen Rooney on some of her favorite non-human narrators. | Lit Hub Criticism
> The intentional visual chaos of Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the Louvre: Alexis Boylan on the imagery of  “Apeshit.” | Lit Hub Music
> “The Stone of Fear.” A poem by Julia Cimafiejeva, in solidarity with the Belarusian people. | Lit Hub Poetry
> Kate Reed Petty recommends seven thrillers about filmmakers and subversive art. | CrimeReads
> New titles from Margot Livesey, Diane Cook, Elisa Gabbert, and Kathleen Rooney all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
> Lucy Scholes on Kay Dick’s lost dystopian masterpiece, They, “a surreptitious late-career aberration, whose genesis is unclear.” | The Paris Review
> “The eager but lumbering feminism behind this initiative ignores that all of these women chose to publish under male pseudonyms.” Olivia Rutigliano on the problem with the #ReclaimHerName initiative. | The Hub
> “Being a poet is inherently embarrassing, but writing love poems feels especially shameful.” Rachel Rabbit White and Nico Walker in conversation. | Interview 
> From union erasure to the myth of love (of books) conquering all: Why organizing book industry workers is so hard. | Jacobin
> “Black theater is one of America’s most powerful resources for thinking about our nation’s social problems.” Five perspectives on race and Shakespeare in 2020. | Lit Hub
> “These characters are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.” Lynn Steger Strong on the passive female characters of contemporary fiction. | Los Angeles Times
> Fighting the battle of gay liberation in a homophobic world: Mark Dery considers poet Jean Giorno's memoir, Demon Kings. | Lit Hub Memoir
> How Uighur poets are “bearing eloquent witness to the catastrophe in their homeland.” | NYRB
> “I feel like I’m a bridge between the legacy of the past and the legacy of the future.” Katrina Books, the owner of Austin's Black Pearl Books, on Black-owned businesses and her recent sales boom. | Austin360
> “Racism makes it difficult to love yourself, and encourages people to make themselves into the image racism prefers.” Matthew Salesses on writing a novel that explores racism's impact on identity. | Ploughshares
> “I found it impossible to step into a bookshop and bring my gloom with me.” John Freeman, in praise of the local bookstore. | Kenyon Review
>  
> NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
> On Keen On, Norman Eisen makes the case for the ongoing importance
> of Donald Trump's impeachment trial. 
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> Ruth Behar talks to Mitchell Kaplan about the strange luck that led to being
> a bestselling author, on The Literary Life.
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> John Compton talks to Crawford Gribben about the shifting values of evangelical Christianity, on the New Books Network.
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> ALSO ON LITERARY HUB
> 
> ON MARY KING WARD, 19TH-CENTURY CELEBRITY SCIENTIST
> (Who also happens to be the first person to die from a car accident.)
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> LIT HUB RECOMMENDS: A BURNING, THE CHANGELING, AND PALM SPRINGS
> Also, why not dance alone in your apartment?
> 
> MAKENNA GOODMAN'S DEBUT NOVEL
> From The Shame.
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