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--> <div class="post_wrapper" style="padding-top:0;"> <div class="post_inner_wrapper"> <div class="post_wrapper_inner"> <div class="post_inner_wrapper"> <span class="caption"> TODAY: In <span style="font-weight: 400">1900, Oscar Wilde dies.</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> </span></span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Merve Emre and Adam Dalva discuss </span><a href="https://lithub.com/an-ending-divorced-the-literary-and-social-subversions-of-gissings-the-odd-women/"><span style="font-weight: 400">how George Gissing’s <em>The Odd Women</em> defied</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> both social and literary norms. | Lit Hub </span><a href="https://lithub.com/category/craftandcriticism/literary-criticism/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Criticism</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">2024 MacArthur Fellows Jericho Brown, Ling Ma, Jason Reynolds, and Juan Felipe Herrera, </span><a 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href="https://lithub.com/werner-herzog-on-memory-the-elusiveness-of-truth-and-sleepwalking-into-new-wars"><span style="font-weight: 400">Ayşegül Sert interviews Werner Herzog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | Lit Hub </span><a href="https://lithub.com/category/craftandcriticism/in-conversation/"><span style="font-weight: 400">In Conversation</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Quentin Meillassoux on music, </span><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/11/22/mallarmes-poetry-of-the-void/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, and the void. | The Paris Review</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">If </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/arts/thinking-of-writing-a-letter-to-an-author-do-it/?p1=SectionFront_Feed_ContentQuery" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">you’re thinking about writing a letter to an author</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, Alexander Chee urges you to do it. | The Boston Globe</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">“Their pain is still my pain.” Asmaa Yassin on </span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/women-in-gaza-survival/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">the women she left behind in Gaza</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | The Nation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">“The poetry written in dark times is proof of something stronger than hope — a faith in the possibility of a world where things could be otherwise.” Orlando Reade meditates on </span><a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/11/john-milton-paradise-lost-revolution/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">defeat, hope, and <em>Paradise Lost</em></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | Jacobin</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Julia Webster Ayulo explores the work of </span><a href="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/forensic-linguists-solve-crimes" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">the forensic linguists using grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | The Dial</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">“There’s plenty of plot in the book — and it’s one of those books most people will have trouble putting down — but the action is not, in a sense, where the action is.” </span><a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/jonathan-franzen-corrections-interview.html?origSession=D230829YotSGk6X4iBHhUfbKyHZmJmIlqCPJxNyUGAU2l3HUb8%3D&_gl=1*1fzgpt0*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MzI1NTc2ODAuQ2p3S0NBaUEzWkM2QmhCYUVpd0FlcWZ2eWhzcTQ2QU5WN2lDdllUa2RHYjBEWU9Sa1pHZU83UFRqb3RmZTdZYUJwTVQtaW1id2tHSEZob0M0ODBRQXZEX0J3RQ..*FPAU*MTUyOTkzNDUwNi4xNzMwNzIwNjc0*_ga*MTMzNzc5ODgxMy4xNjkxMzY4MDE1*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*MTczMjU1NzA5MC42OC4xLjE3MzI1NjE4OTIuMC4wLjYwODk5MTAwNA..*_fplc*RW5ocGV5dXBNbWxpcDJjMWR2Z0NCR0x2N0JkTlc3T1VlVnNTYksxZ3BXeFY0aURpME9hcW92Z29yY2JuSWRjR3lPSnc0MUczWTJGeUNvNXJXJTJGNlViTnhUSlBCQ1dmM2E5cExyN3FQJTJGZmFBM3BXR2tsZ3JOSXBSOVZ3JTJCJTJGWWclM0QlM0Q." class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Jonathan Franzen talks to Adam Moss about writing <em>The Corrections</em></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | Vulture</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">“With all this emphasis on the contents of the story—that it be serviceable to the point of literal disbelief—the form in which it’s told falls by the wayside.” Tajja Isen wonders </span><a href="https://thewalrus.ca/memoirs-are-almost-impossible-to-sell/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">why readers and publishers are turning away</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> from memoir. | The Walrus</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Kimberley D. McKinson considers </span><a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/to-counteract-apocalyptic-technoscience-we-need-new-myths/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">monsters, mythology, and the apocalyptic promises</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> of big tech. | Public Books</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">“Art was his medium—consequently he inherited its millennia of baggage.” </span><a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/no-ordinary-joe-felsenthal" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Daniel Felsenthal on the letters of Joe Brainard</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. | The Baffler</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a63008039/the-napkin-project-thanksgiving-edition/" class="external" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400">Jacqueline Woodson, Weike Wang, and more present stories of Thanksgiving</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> (composed on napkins). | Esquire</span></li> </ul> <p>Also on Lit Hub:</p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-weight: 400">On </span><a href="https://lithub.com/on-the-enduring-importance-of-edward-saids-the-question-of-palestine/"><span style="font-weight: 400"><em>The Question of Palestine</em>’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> enduring legacy • Martha White remembers </span><a href="https://lithub.com/small-but-unforgettable-moments-what-e-b-white-loved-about-new-york-city/"><span style="font-weight: 400">what her grandfather E.B. 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