[New post] Lit Hub Weekly: March 27–31, 2023

Lit Hub Daily posted: " Allegra Hyde considers the "slippery, maddening, even disastrous" task of ending a story. | Lit Hub Craft & Advice How illustrated children's books played a part in social evolution. | Lit Hub And we think egg prices are bad now:" Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: March 27–31, 2023 Lit Hub Daily Apr 1 TODAY: In 1816, Jane Austen responds to a letter from the Prince Regent suggesting she write a historic romance, saying, "I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life."  Allegra Hyde considers the "slippery, maddening, even disastrous" task of ending a story. | Lit Hub Craft & Advice How illustrated children's books played a part in social evolution. | Lit Hub And we think egg prices are bad now: Lizzie Stark recounts the 1848 Egg War of San Francisco, when miners paid—in today's dollars—hundreds per dozen. | Lit Hub History Jess Row on what fiction can teach us about surviving the slow apocalypse: "That deficit is our failure to imagine, and grapple with, solidarity." | Lit Hub Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood, Catherine Lacey's Biography of X, and Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks Josh Weiss recommends 10 alternative history thrillers. | CrimeReads Why we get "book hangovers." | Reader's Digest Ibram X. Kendi considers the crisis of the intellectuals: "The traditional construct of the intellectual has produced and reinforced bigoted ideas of group hierarchy—the most anti-intellectual constructs existing." | The Atlantic Publishers are preparing for a showdown with Silicon Valley over ChatGPT and other AI tools. | The Wall Street Journal Agatha Christie is getting a contemporary rewrite. | The Independent The manuscript thief has been ordered to be deported (and to pay $88,000 in restitution to Penguin Random House). | The New York Times Gabrielle Zevin's best-selling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has sparked a debate about credit in fiction. | The Washington Post Elizabeth Kolbert on the con artists of the animal kingdom. | The New Yorker Rapid-fire book recs from Clint Smith. | ELLE Forget Lord of the Flies: Yellowjackets is remaking a Greek myth. | JSTOR Daily "The writer told the court he was suffering depression at the time of signing the deal and had drunk several glasses of wine." A Dutch court has ruled that, despite his protests, Michel Houellebecq's appearance in an arthouse porn was completely above board. | DutchNews "My marriage was never the same after that poem." Maggie Smith on how career success impacted her home life. | The Cut New York State has been ordered to pay $5.5 million to Anthony J. Broadwater, who was wrongfully accused and imprisoned for the 1981 rape of writer Alice Sebold. | AP News "When I went to summer camp, it was like, 'How am I gonna get through eight weeks here and never touch my special place?'" A conversation with the one and only Judy Blume. | Variety "Low energy conservative influencers, dressed in business casual outfits, awkwardly reading (and explaining) their own stories off PowerPoint…" When conservatives try to have a children's story hour. | The Daily Dot "I read Wuthering Heights twice and found it demented." Real talk from Louise Kennedy. | The Guardian Also on Lit Hub: Read a 2004 interview with Octavia Butler about the creation of Kindred • Kelly Link gives you permission to write in the afternoon • Joshua Bennett reflects on the surreal experience of performing poetry at the White House • Revisiting Anne Carson's (surprisingly funny) masterpiece, 25 years later • Read Ayad Akhtar's keynote speech from this week's Whiting Awards • Considering the Bible, the ultimate book of books • Jasmin Attia remembers Egypt through grape leaves • The role of Big Data in sorting humanity across history • Liam Callanan on starting over • How writing about animals can help us better understand human nature • Memories of a distant home in milo toast • Clancy Martin on the contradictions of living through suicidal moments •  Why do we devalue the sense of smell? • Peek into the creation process for Carlo Rovelli's newest book cover • "Some people pour themselves a glass of wine; others stare at chickens." • On the life-threatening health impacts of social inequity 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-weekly-march-27-31-2023/

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