Lit Hub Daily: April 10, 2020

• THESE TIMES: What happens to the presidential election during coronavirus? · Round four of our personalized quarantined book recommendations · Please stay home and enjoy the best literary adaptations to stream right now. | Life in a Pandemic
• ON THE VBC: Hadley Freeman discusses researching family history on Personal Space · On Sheltering, Zan Romanoff takes on the myth of Bluebeard · Lisa Olstein talks to Paul Lisicky about writing from—and through—pain, on Rekindled · Watch John Freeman, Leila Chatti, and Traci Brimhall on the second installment of Copper Canyon Live.| The Virtual Book Channel
• “I don’t require my career to be fun. I require it to be challenging and deeply satisfying.” A look at Elizabeth George’s no-frills writing routine. | Lit Hub Craft
• Betsey Johnson recalls striking out on her own (on the eve of the cotton Lycra revolution). | Lit Hub Style
• On leaving a life and moving to Alaska—with a pack of sled dogs as companions. | Lit Hub Nature
• “The decision by a woman to kill is always unexpected, generally condemned, and deeply misunderstood.” On gendered violence and female rage. | Lit Hub Politics
• Dean Jobb recommends 10 of the greatest con artist movies of all time. | CrimeReads
• New titles from Anne Tyler, Don Winslow, Julia Alvarez, and Eric Eyre all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “I feel that I am like the designated New Yorker. Everyone else can leave.” In case you were wondering, Fran Lebowitz is staying in New York (and still not using an iPhone). | The New Yorker
• Duke University Press has made its books and journal articles on pandemics and contagion free to access online. | Hyperallergic
• “I couldn’t focus. What’s more, news aside, I could barely read. Instead, I ate an unusually large quantity of salt-and-vinegar chips.” R.O. Kwon on feeling grief during the pandemic. | The New York Times
• Next up on the list of virtual (and free) book award ceremonies this year: the L.A. Times Book Prize. | Los Angeles Times
• Myriam Gurba, one of the most vocal opponents of Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt, considers the aftermath of the literary world’s protests. | Yes! Magazine
• The coronavirus pandemic is putting librarians in “an impossible position” as they advocate for better working conditions. | NBC News
• “I wish the book seemed less relevant than it does.” Emily St. John Mandel on interconnectedness and the problems with writing post-apocalyptic fiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: On being gay in the Black Pentecostal church • Lit Hub Recommends: quarantine edition • Read a story from Sarah Harris Wallman’s collection Senseless Women.