Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2023

Lit Hub Daily

Sep 29

TODAY: In 1810, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell is born.

The art of adaptation in Iowa City: Hannah Bonner introduces the (second annual) Refocus Film Festival. | Lit Hub Film
"Desire is always silly, and self-serious, and enormous, and and and and and and." Isle McElroy on the art of the sex scene. | Lit Hub Craft
Trick or treat: 23 new books in paperback out this October. | The Hub
Here's the Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in October, featuring Lessons in Chemistry, Killers of the Flower Moon, and spooky throwbacks. | Lit Hub
"How do you end a book about an issue that we're still desperately trying to figure out?" Rosanna Xia and Lizzie Johnson talk about turning their climate reporting into books. | Lit Hub Climate Change
Tania Branigan considers how the Cultural Revolution played society against itself: "The trauma would not die with its victims: it had already replicated itself in their children, and their children's children." | Lit Hub History
Why do we love meet cutes so much? Lauren Forsythe muses on romance fiction and love IRL. | Lit Hub
Read "The Embassy Murders," a new short story by Ariel Dorfman, which the author describes as "an embodiment of the metaverse." | Index on Censorship
Why isn't Amazon flagging books written by AI? | Wired
"The Prophet has always been and remains uniquely troublesome, and to call it the bestselling 'poetry book' of its century might be misleading." Gus Mitchell on Kahlil Gibran's perpetual best-seller. | JSTOR Daily
Lily Meyer talks to Lydia Davis about Davis's new collection Our Strangers, and the author's stand against Amazon. | The Nation
Tour Jennifer Egan's home library. | The Washington Post