TODAY: In 1887, German novelist and playwright Anna Elisabet Weirauch is born.
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“Am I the literary asshole for prioritizing my writing over the travails of my loved ones?” And other questions answered by Kristen Arnett this week. | Lit Hub Advice
“There is no doubt that if anyone is capable of rebuilding and renewing, it is Los Angeles.” Ella Berman on writing about the City of Angels. | Lit Hub Memoir
M.G. Sheftall chronicles daily life in Nagasaki before the atomic bomb: “At least if he could help it, no one else’s grandchild was going to die on his watch because of a decision he made—or failed to make in time.” | Lit Hub History
“All afternoon we watched Elvis’s old films. Elvis as a cowboy, a soldier, a surfer in nothing but his shorts. By the time we reached the news I was a wreck.” Read from Esther Freud’s novel, My Sister and Other Lovers. | Lit Hub Fiction
DELIGHTFUL POEMS FROM THE AUTHOR OF “THE ORANGE”
One of England’s most celebrated and bestselling poets, Wendy Cope found a new generation of fans through her poem “The Orange.” This stunning volume brings together all of Cope’s works, including many previously uncollected poems.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul, an expansive, deeply felt portrait of Afghanistan, examining the human cost of wars fought, lost, and won.
“His work keeps one’s mind on tiptoe. Illusions beget disillusions but also hopes; hopes beget illusions but also clarities.” Yiyun Li on Graham Greene. | The Paris Review
ENTER TO WIN A MEMOIR OF LOVE, IMPRISONMENT, AND PROTEST
Satsuki Ina was born a prisoner. Her family were among the 125,000 Japanese people incarcerated by the US and separated from their families at concentration camps across the country during WWII. This haunting family memoir, woven together by her mother’s prison diaries and her father’s haiku, shares their story—and meditates on its echoes for immigrants facing persecution today.
