Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: May 20, 2021

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How does a book get adapted for TV and film? Laura Van Den Berg, Daniel Torday, and Melissa Scholes Young chime in on the process. | Lit Hub

David Weill on the surprise of discovering, after a decade of performing lung transplants, that he’d also become a writer. | Lit Hub Memoir

Mike Bond recommends 11 books for understanding the turbulent, anti-war, LSD-loving 60s. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

A revolutionary reading list from PEN America’s World Voices Festival, featuring Assata Shakur, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more. | Lit Hub

Mystic inklings or business savvy? How Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, shaped her own destiny. | Lit Hub Biography

Phoebe Wynne considers her first introduction to Antigone—framed as “an insolent, disobedient girl”—and how ancient tales have become a rallying cry for modern women. | Lit Hub Criticism

22 new books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors perfect for mystery readers. | CrimeReads

Katy Waldman on Olivia Laing’s Everybody, Noah Kulwin on Malcolm Gladwell’s The Bomber Mafia, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

“We imagine nations out of nonexistent lines and reinforce the lines with violence lest they cease to exist altogether.” Suchitra Vijayan on the human casualties of arbitrary borders. | Lit Hub Politics

“Like me, my book will disappear. If I’m lucky, it will shine a little before it disappears.” Claire Cox reflects on virtually launching her debut novel after a year full of loss. | Lit Hub Craft

Here are 10 translated books from Haiti to read now. | Words Without Borders

Devoney Looser explores the Austen family’s “complex entanglements” with colonial slavery, from known complicity to anti-slavery activism. | Times Literary Supplement

“What was alternative without bitterness, pasty complexions, hatred of the contemporary, feelings of ostracization, moping?” Jeremy Atherton Lin on Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male. | The Yale Review

How PERIPLUS collective is demystifying and democratizing the world of writing and publishing for BIPOC writers. | Poets & Writers

A conversation on “guilty pleasures” in academia, from “the iconic texts of bad heterosexuality” to “rich white people fictions.” | LARB

How Lois Lew mastered IBM’s 5,400-character(!) typewriter. | Fast Company

“I feel very blessed to have grown up in a community and in a family where the idea of making art was normal and accepted.” Eve Ewing talks about finding her writing community, the pathways to art, and Black girls in STEM. | Catapult

R.O. Kwon on the joy of discovering a new kind of Korean childhood
in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, on Open Form.

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Elizabeth McCracken talks about placing her characters in

unexpected settings, on The Maris Review. 

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Barrett Swanson on his search for reality in a

“post-truth” America, on Keen On.

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Can we salvage patriotism? Should we?
Steven Smith guests on Just the Right Book. 

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Laurie Frankel on the way that girls “superhero,” on Book Dreams. 

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Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian discuss the fiction of the economy
and the dangerous appeal of excess, on Fiction/Non/Fiction. 

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Katja Hoyer breaks down Hitler’s campaign for office,
on We Have Ways of Making You Talk. 

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