TODAY: In 1434, Hungarian Renaissance poet Janus Pannonius is born.

• Our favorite August book covers are all about paintings, text treatments, and more than one dog. | Lit Hub Design
• On the chilling parallels between genocide in Srebrenica and genocide in Gaza: “When we comb through the layers of complicity, we find more than just power-hungry politicians and bloodthirsty generals.” | Lit Hub Politics
• This week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Radium Age superheroes and nightstand TBRs! | Lit Hub Radio
• Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Nicholas Boggs’ James Baldwin: A Love Story, Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Peter Ames Carlin’s Tonight in Jungleland, and Jason Mott’s People Like Us all feature among August’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
• Maybe you don’t need to stream these literary films and TV shows, but we definitely think you should. | Lit Hub Film
• “What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?” Douglas Unger on discovering why you write. | Lit Hub Craft
• Our friends at AudioFile Magazine round up their most anticipated audiobooks of September. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “We fell into a long silence, which I later regretted. The quiet in the air held too much meaning for two strangers making small talk.” Read from Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon, translated by Yuki Tejima. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “It’s an atrocity recorded live”: Aymann Ismail on the 189 Palestinian journalists that Israel has killed. | Slate
• Joanna Pocock explores America by Greyhound, and considers the “overlooked ecosystem” that includes the buses. | Orion
• “Novels that are set in the suburbs continue to be written and published…But the suburban novel was more than that.” Adelle Waldman asks, what happened to the suburban novel? | New York Review of Books
• No, there isn’t a crisis of “hypersensitivity” in publishing. | The Baffler
• Mae Losasso on why Alice Notley’s writing “resists easy absorption.” | n+1
• Nicholas Quah explores the impossibility of a podcast canon: “The medium is just two decades old, yet whole swaths of its history have already been lost: feeds taken offline, platforms shuttered, files no longer hosted.” | Vulture

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