Lit Hub Daily: December 17, 2024

We know you don’t want to read every best books of 2024 list, so Emily Temple read them all for you. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “He has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking.” These are the most scathing book reviews of 2024. | Book Marks Betsy Fagin talks to Peter Mishler about why art is “a portal, one of many paths to freedom.” | Lit Hub Craft Read “Winter” and “Sigh,” two poems by Roberta Iannamico from the collection Many Poems: “the fire is / the heart of this house / mine also gives off heat.” | Lit Hub Poetry Suat Derviş, Blake Butler, Mary E. Hicks, and more! These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “What I wanted to emphasize is that we are much more similar than we are different.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Weike Wang. | Lit Hub In Conversation Edmund White on writing about sex in memoir. | The Paris Review “Through the barrier of a screen, the lines between the strange and the familiar blur: We come to know the endless suffering before us by heart, yet we have no real understanding of what it means to endure it.” On Isabella Hammad’s Recognizing the Stranger. | The Nation Sofia Coppola is launching an imprint with MACK. | Vogue Merve Emre on why we should remember that Paradise Lost is sexy: “Here is the poem’s first radical choice: Satan is its most attractive character, not despite his envy or his desire for revenge but because of it.” | The New Yorker Joel Suarez considers Studs Terkel’s Working at fifty. | Jacobin Ange Mlinko considers what we can learn from prose written by poets. | New York Review of Books