[New post] Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "For two years, I workshopped the novel, but I was also workshopping myself." How writing a novel helped Jules Ohman say gay. | Lit Hub 7 Russian books that outlived the censors. | Lit Hub Reading Lists What happens to the world when" New post on Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2022 by Lit Hub Daily TODAY: In 1944, Astrid Lindgren sprains her ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking.   "For two years, I workshopped the novel, but I was also workshopping myself." How writing a novel helped Jules Ohman say gay. | Lit Hub 7 Russian books that outlived the censors. | Lit Hub Reading Lists What happens to the world when more people than ever are living to be centenarians? | Lit Hub "3pm, Rise. 3.05, Chivas Regal with the morning papers." How to live, eat, and drink like your favorite writers. | Lit Hub Erika L. Sánchez considers Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, which takes seriously "the tragedy of childhood and adolescence." | Lit Hub Criticism Michael Kazin observes how the Clinton years transformed the Democratic Party (for the worse). | Lit Hub Politics Cry over The Book Thief, laugh with Katherine Heiny, re-read The Little House on the Prairie, and more rapid-fire book recommendations from Catherine Cho. | Book Marks "After 2014, Ukrainians asked themselves what sort of country they wished to live in, and then set about building it with a sense of urgency." Olesya Khromeychuk and Sonya Bilocerkowycz consider the nation Ukraine has become. | The New York Review of Books Hannah Sampson makes a case for books as the best travel souvenirs. (No arguments there.) | The Washington Post "I noticed him right away, by the way he carried himself." Barbara Jacobs describes a love story that began in the library. | Los Angeles Times Why families need more bilingual children's books. | Chalkbeat Newark "For now, I just message everyone: 'And you? How are you?' Hearing an answer is the only thing that matters." Ilya Kaminsky speaks to Odesa writers about literature in wartime. | The Paris Review How John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud unleashed American grief. | The Atlantic Anne Wallentine on the evolution of romance novel covers, which have "both combatted—and been shaped by—sexist attitudes towards a genre that centers and celebrates women's sexuality and romance." | Slate Matt Bell explains how to write a novel in three drafts. | Publishers Weekly Also on Lit Hub: Natalie Haynes on the motivations of a maligned figure: Clytemnestra • A poem by Carolyn Forché • Read from David Keenan's latest novel, Xstabeth Lit Hub Daily | March 28, 2022 at 6:30 am | Tags: Lit Hub Daily | Categories: Lit Hub Daily | URL: https://wp.me/p5rKFr-O6R Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Literary Hub. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-28-2022/