THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York.

• “The audience is present even when no one else is in the room.” David Pakman examines just how far the need to perform for digital spectators has seeped into real life. | Lit Hub Technology
• Why we love the thrill of exploring old buildings and their long-hidden secrets. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Neil Griffin considers nature, wonder, and what we lose when a species goes extinct. | Lit Hub Nature
• The 20 new books out today include titles by Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Benjamin Moser introduces you to Hyman Judah Schachtel, the anti-Zionist rabbi of Houston. | Lit Hub History
• Why John Green gives himself permission to suck (and more answers to questions about literary life). | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “One year after the death you throw a party.” Read from Laleh Khadivi’s new novel, Female Life on Planet Earth. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Rebecca Onion read Andrew Huberman’s 540-page Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body, and all she got was “a frenzied feeling of insufficiency.” | Slate
• James Young Phillips, author of the largely forgotten 1940 novel The Inheritors, “was compared by prominent critics to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway”—and thanks to a re-issue the book is getting a second chance to find its audience. | Texas Monthly
• Nancy Foley remembers her cross-generational friendship with the late painter Robert Kabak, or as she calls him, Bob. | Oldster
• John Hay looks at The Sea Beast, the earliest cinematic adaptation of Moby-Dick. | The Paris Review
• Alex Dueben interviews underground legend and graphic biographer Sharon Rudahl. | The Comics Journal
• China Miéville talks to Nicholas Russell about taking 20 years to write The Rouse. | Defector

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