Lit Hub Daily: June 7, 2018
TODAY: In 1967, Dorothy Parker dies.
- Maria Hummell on at Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi’s feminist rage (and surprisingly accurate blood spatter). | CrimeReads
- Chris Ware on Nick Drnaso’s “extraordinary—and extraordinarily upsetting” new graphic novel, Ron Charles on the James Patterson-Bill Clinton presidential thriller, and more: 5 book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- “How would a parable read if it expressed the fantasy that one simple man might swoop in and make order out of the chaos and stupidity of the world?” Read a story from Helen DeWitt’s Some Trick, recommended by Sheila Heti. | Recommended Reading
- Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire has been awarded the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. | The Guardian
- “I didn’t want to write a book that leaned into the facts. I wanted to make the language itself part of what helped keep a person reading.” Rising author Elizabeth Rush on finding a new way to write about climate change. | Longreads
- Books Not Bombs: how libraries, whose stacks supposedly “offered excellent radiation shielding,” prepared during the Cold War. | JSTOR
- “I’ve got my scalpel out, my little hammer, my tools, and I’m ready to go dig in there and chisel, and I will lop off whole halves of poems.” Poet Victoria Chang on revision. | Guernica
- Daniel Radcliffe, Bobby Cannavale, and Cherry Jones will star in the Broadway adaptation of John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s The Lifespan of a Fact. | Vulture
- “Both the idea of the stage lights growing dimmer, and the author asking the reader to hurry, make perfect sense. Which to choose? As always: both.” A diary of translation by Emma Ramadan. | The Quarterly Conversation
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