By Literary Hub | Created at 2024-09-24 11:04:06 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:17:13
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TODAY: In 1995, the iconic TV adaptation of Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice, starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, debuts on BBC One.
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- In praise of yearning, longing, and the hallmarks of over-the-top romance. | Lit Hub Craft
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“I don’t think any new book appears out of nowhere, as if it materialized out of thin air or from the moon.” Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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- “They follow you around the store, these power ballads, / you and the women with their shopping carts filled with eggs.” Read “Whitney Houston,” a poem by August Kleinzahler. | Lit Hub Poetry
- They’re more than just spooky symbols of Halloween. On why bats are companions, protectors, and muses. | Lit Hub Nature
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Richard Powers about humanity’s relationships with nature and technology: “The oceans have changed profoundly and alarmingly in the half century since I last dove there, and much of the book is haunted by those changes.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Stuart Gibbs recommends 10 great books with strong tween characters (for tweens). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “We called it fencing. We had sex after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays when we told our parents the fencing team had practice.” Read from Elizabeth Roberts Architects: Collected Stories, a collaboration between the architect Elizabeth Roberts and the novelist Christine Coulson. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “His job now, as it has always been, is to speak truth to power, not figure out what one might actually do with it.” Ryu Spaeth profiles Ta-Nehisi Coates. | New York Magazine
- Esther Perel interviews Miranda July: “It doesn’t take very much reality to make something come alive. It’s like red food coloring or something — you just need a little drop, and suddenly the whole thing is pink.” | The Cut
- Considering the movement for Palestine as student protesters return to campus. | n+1
- From Gender Queer to This One Summer, Gina Gagliano examines the state of comics amid wave after wave of book bans. | The Comics Journal
- In the face of conservative book bans, schools are censoring themselves. | Slate
- “Even if there can be only one Rooney, her success speaks to the necessity of publishers meaningfully investing in debut voices.” Kate Dwyer considers the Sally Rooney effect. | TIME
