{"id":232244,"date":"2024-01-29T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/?p=232244"},"modified":"2024-01-29T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:55:50","slug":"lit-hub-daily-january-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/lit-hub-daily-january-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit Hub Daily: January 29, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caption\"> TODAY: In 1845, \u201cThe Raven\u201d by Edgar Allen Poe is published in the <em>New York Evening Mirror<\/em>.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\">Life in wartime: Aminatta Forna on what fiction can reveal <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-fiction-can-reveal-about-the-fragile-fabric-of-our-societies\/\">about the fragile fabric of our societies.<\/a> | Lit Hub<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBoth of my parents had a hard time letting things go.\u201d On book hoarding and <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/on-book-hoarding-and-the-perilous-paradox-of-clutter\/\">the perilous paradox of clutter.<\/a> | Lit Hub<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\">Playing the Dozens: Rafi Kohan on <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/playing-the-dozens-on-the-joys-and-functions-of-sht-talk\/\">the joys and functions of sh*t talk.<\/a> | Lit Hub<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\">Collaboration, not competition: How Betty Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/collaboration-not-competition-how-betty-smith-helped-her-fellow-writers\/\">helped her fellow writers.<\/a> | Lit Hub<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\">No safe place to grieve: Aisha Abdel Gawad on the danger of talking openly <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/no-safe-place-to-grieve-the-trauma-of-muslim-americans-living-under-surveillance\/\">about Palestinian pain.<\/a> | Lit Hub<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\">\u201cWe know life is finite.Why should we believe death lasts forever?\u201d Read from <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/held\/\">Anne Michaels\u2019s new novel, <em>Held<\/em><\/a>. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/daily-fiction\/\">Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[T]he writing space, the notebook space is my privacy. And it always has been.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dirt.fyi\/article\/2024\/01\/against-art-monster\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daisy Alioto and Kate Zambreno in conversation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. | Dirt<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Oregon couple working as chauffeurs were charged with wire fraud and money laundering for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/couple-working-chauffeurs-accused-stealing-34m-oregon-publishing-giant-rcna135829\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allegedly stealing $34 million from<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Win McCormack, the founder of Tin House Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. | NBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe tragedies inflicted on the people of East Africa as a result of European rivalries are belittled and forgotten.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/from-zanzibar-to-marbach\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdulrazak Gurnah on German East Africa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. | Granta<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"post_title\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Livia Gershon explores <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/dreams-in-islam\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the history of dream interpretation in the Arab world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. | JSTOR Daily<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond beauty: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/26\/books\/review\/david-sedaris-ian-falconer-pretty-ugly-beatrice-alemagna-pepper-and-me-picture-books-about-looks.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bruce Handy considers four new picture books that \u201cdare to flirt with body negativity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, exploring unattractiveness from myriad angles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d | The New York Times<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in wartime: Aminatta Forna on what fiction can reveal about the fragile fabric of our societies. | Lit Hub \u201cBoth of my parents had a hard time letting things go.\u201d On book hoarding and the perilous paradox of clutter. | Lit Hub Playing the Dozens: Rafi Kohan on the joys and functions of sh*t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":232249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45236],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jan-29-960x430-1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5rKFr-YpS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}