Lit Hub Daily: April 10, 2017

• Emily Temple in defense of worldbuilding. | Literary Hub
• The time Bruce Springsteen controlled 13,000 people with just his eyes. | Literary Hub
• Malcolm Mackay lives in the golden age of Scottish crime fiction. | Literary Hub
• Rarely seen literary treasures from the Library of Congress, from Thomas Jefferson to James Baldwin. | Literary Hub
• On the science of old book smells—and why Penguin paperbacks smell like “fresh rusk biscuits.” | The Guardian
• Snow White, a new dramatic adaptation of a 1967 Donald Bartheleme story, is coming to Houston. | The New Yorker
• There are many ways to sing the song of home: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib on Mari Evans and what it means to be a black poet in the Midwest. | The Baffler
• “I think most writers do not love being on the side of power.” Elif Batuman on the power imbalance inherent to travel writing. | Granta
• From Black Easter to The Devil’s Bride, a roundup of Satan-centric pulp novels. | Tor
• “This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization that difference is normal.” An excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. | Signature
• Jack Kerouac fans in St. Petersburg, Florida, are one step closer to buying the home where he died and turning it into a museum. | Smithsonian Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: On the ancient Celtic matriarchy · In conversation with Sara Ahmed · From Fiona Maazel’s latest novel, A Little Too Human.