Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 11, 2021

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“I didn’t know there was a way to talk about feminism and pornography and body parts and sex and vaginal deodorant in a way that felt both extremely personal and completely universal.” Jennifer Weiner takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire (and praises Nora Ephron). | Lit Hub

How did a phrase that began as legal jargon became a cudgel against equality? Nesrine Malik investigates the roots of “political correctness.” | Lit Hub History

Notes from an unlikely teen heartthrob: Andrew McCarthy on landing his career-changing role in Pretty in Pink. | Lit Hub Film

Happy birthday to these 22 new books (and happy Tuesday to us). | The Hub

How an obsessive scholar saved Iceland’s literary legacy, while a three-day fire burned down Copenhagen—and virtually every book in it. | Lit Hub History

“On this day, I was to play the role of executioner.” Suzanne Simard on the moral reckoning of clear-cutting a forest. | Lit Hub Nature

This month’s 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Brian Broome, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Linda Rui Feng, Julian Sancton, and Monica West. | Lit Hub

The authority of suicide in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. | Book Marks

From family estates to wartime residences, Phyllis Richardson looks at the homes that inspired Agatha Christie’s settings. | CrimeReads

“These concerns are the stuff of life: What are other people for? What do we want from them?” On reading Jon Klassen’s new children’s book on the eve of the After. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jessi Jezewska Stevens considers Georgia O’Keeffe, Toni Morrison, and the “endlessly accommodating of projections” of flowers. | The New Yorker

“She’s an albacore around my neck.” A masterclass in malapropisms from The Sopranos. | Counter Craft

Curtis Sittenfeld talks about why she wrote Rodham and what it’s like living in her hometown of Minneapolis since the murder of George Floyd. | The Guardian

When it comes to learning, do digital or printed texts work best for students? | Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Miki Brina recounts excavating the history of Okinawa—and her family’s history in the process—for her memoir. | Guernica

Should Norman Mailer have any legacy beyond being the guy who stabbed
his wife? Miranda Popkey guests on Lit Century. 

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In praise of Atul Gawande’s anti-self help book, Being Mortal,
this week on Literary Disco. 

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Kenneth Cukier and Francis de Vericourt discuss the discord

in the GOP, on Keen On.

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