THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1930, Almost 6,000 spiritualists gathered in the Royal Albert Hall for a memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attended by his relatives. The medium Estelle Roberts relayed a private message to Doyle’s widow which she affirmed to be genuine.
How cell phone novels became the iconic genre among young writers on the Y2k internet. | Lit Hub Criticism
“To drink is to enter of a labyrinth of romantic, thrilling, even glamorous myths; to give up drinking is to give those up too.” Jack Parlett explores the queer writer’s experience of sobriety. | Lit Hub Memoir
André Aciman considers intimacy as art in Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth: “Rohmer’s characters… could all be on time-out and exist on an entirely different planet… But be under no illusion; it is still our world.” | Lit Hub Criticism
