Lit Hub Daily: In Which Ruth Ozeki Breaks Our Hearts and Bowls Us Over

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Lit Hub Daily

Ruth Ozeki tells us about a professor’s prophecy, her 25-year-old process journal, and the best advice she’s ever received. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

“This is how I like to think of genres. As different literary conversations, ones that stretch back in time.” Lincoln Michel in defense (and praise) of genre labels. | Lit Hub Criticism

Here are this year’s National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees. | The Hub

“I care about you more than you know.” When Tennessee Williams reached out to an embattled Truman Capote. | Lit Hub History

Stuck in a reading funk? Here are 16 new books for that. | The Hub

You Doom and Gloomers May Be on to Something: an illustrated collection of very honest book covers. | Lit Hub

Saumya Roy on the risks of book covers becoming “poverty porn.” | Lit Hub

Suzanne O’Sullivan investigates the cultural and traumatic elements behind resignation syndrome, which is affecting hundreds of young asylum-seekers in Sweden. | Lit Hub

How Michael Sayman, a second-generation Latino immigrant, became known as “the Boy Genius of Apple.” | Lit Hub Memoir

On the occasion of its 84th publication anniversary, a look back at C. S. Lewis’s 1937 review of The Hobbit. | Book Marks

Barbara J. Wilson investigates the queer old case of the spinster sleuth. | CrimeReads

On Keen On, Alec Ross on how companies govern our lives, and Tom Nichols on the rise of illiberalism. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“If you’re a novelist who’s now in his early 60s embarking on a three-book project, it’s like a middle finger to the fates.” Happy Jonathan Franzen season! (BONUS: Why he didn’t sign the Harper’s letter.) | Wall Street Journal, The Hub

Go on, take a tour of Haruki Murakami’s accidental novelty T-shirt collection. | The New Yorker

“Even those villains who appear hellbent on saving the natural world do so with an all-consuming destructive fervor.” A case for Swamp Thing as great climate fiction. | Gawker

Imani Perry on novelist Gayl Jones, who disappeared from public life in 1998. | The New York Times Magazine

“Rather than write what I know, I write what I want to know.” Anthony Doerr discusses his new novel and the Netflix adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See. | The Guardian

The Black Film Archive is bringing a renewed focus to stories of cinema’s Black artists throughout history. | Los Angeles Times

Take a walk through Ramona Quimby’s Portland with this self-guided tour. | The Seattle Times

A reading list of 13 queer kid and YA books to read this #WorldKidLitMonth. | Words Without Borders

How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me subverts

80s teenage tropes, on Lit Century.

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On Storybound, Leigh Newman performs her

Paris Review story “Howl Palace.”

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