May 29, 2024 ‹ Literary Hub

TODAY: In 1851, Sojourner Truth delivers the “Ain’t I A Woman” speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. 

• “It would seem like this ignored class of people should be laughing at this identity that’s been forced on them, transmitted via government trichomoniasis.” Pedro Lemebel paints a queer, carnivalesque vision of Chile’s independence day. | Lit Hub
• “I was a girl in the imagination of others and nowhere else.” KB Brookins on masculinity, gender, and trauma. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Can’t figure out what to read this summer? Let us decide for you. Here are 18 novels coming in June, July, and August. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “I do not idealize the afterlife, but that is largely because of the privilege I have in my present.” Eve J. Chung on tradition, family and mourning in Taiwan. | Lit Hub Memoir
• What does Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness have to do with America? A lot, as it turns out. | Lit Hub History
• Elise Juska recommends school reunion books by Mary McCarthy, Sam Lipsyte, Philip Roth, and more for anyone who doesn’t want to go to their own reunion but still needs a slice of the drama. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
•  “A woman wanted to become small. So she shrank, smaller and smaller still, until she was small enough to fit into the calyxes of the foxgloves she’d planted last winter.” Read from Sally Wen Mao’s new short story collection, Nine Tails. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “When I read the memoirs of AAPI writers and creators, I study more than just their craft—I study their career and life choices.” On seeking guidance from those who came before you. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Zoe Yu compiles a reading list of “consumerism in the internet age.” | Longreads
• Revisiting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation fifty years later. | The New Criterion
• Morgan Talty considers the restrictiveness of blood quantum, and what it means for his son. | Esquire
• “It is hard, and with memory you have to reconstruct things, and you think these things are true that maybe even aren’t true—your stories have become so well worn that they’ve taken the place of real things that happened.” In conversation with Hari Kunzru. | Chicago Review of Books
• Ashawnta Jackson explores the life and writing of Lucretia Howe Newman Coleman, a powerful voice in the Black press in the late 1800s who has largely faded from the record of women’s history. | JSTOR Daily