[New post] Lit Hub Daily: February 23, 2023

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "They are as welcome as a letter from home. They are as popular as pin-up girls." How paperbacks distributed to WWII soldiers became a lifeline—and created a generation of readers. | Lit Hub History Gulchehra Hoja recounts life under Chines" Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: February 23, 2023 Lit Hub Daily Feb 23 TODAY: In 1892, American journalist, writer, and activist Agnes Smedley is born.   "They are as welcome as a letter from home. They are as popular as pin-up girls." How paperbacks distributed to WWII soldiers became a lifeline—and created a generation of readers. | Lit Hub History Gulchehra Hoja recounts life under Chinese rule for the Uyghurs. | Lit Hub 7 books about messy, (es)strange(d), surreal families. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Ahead of the Oscars, here's everything you need to know about Martin McDonagh, the polarizing British-Irish filmmaker behind The Banshees of Inisherin. | Lit Hub Film & TV Why Reid Mitenbuler became captivated by eccentric explorer Peter Freuchen: "I recognized in him a cask-strength version of the wanderlust that, to some extent, drives all of us." | Lit Hub Biography Joseph Earl Thomas on finding a safe reprieve from a traumatic childhood during a stay in the hospital. | Lit Hub Memoir Vivian Gornick on Janet Malcolm's posthumous memoir, Reginald Dwayne Betts on an oral history of Rikers, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks Julia Bartz on the new wave of psychological thrillers featuring unapologetic female psychopaths. | CrimeReads David Waldstreicher unearths Ron DeSantis's long-ignored 2011 book: "For DeSantis, Black people telling a different story about the American past is a threat to his entire worldview." | The Atlantic Charlotte Vassell ranks the top 10 cads in fiction. | The Guardian "How have we come to imbue the split-second emotional response with so much cultural and moral value?" William Davies examines life in the reaction economy. | London Review of Books What Dickens and Prince can teach us about creativity. | The Millions Also on Lit Hub: Robin Yeatman on the dangers of a fertile fantasy life • Anthony Anaxagorou on poetry at the intersection of colonialism and patriarchy • Read from Stênio Gardel's newly translated novel, The Words That Remain (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato) Comment 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-february-23-2023/ Powered by Jetpack