Lit Hub Daily: April 10, 2023

• Joy Harjo on being a poet and witness to history: “Through the years I came to understand that poets are the point people—that is, we are just a little ahead when it comes to the shape of an age, and how it will arrange itself around the shoulders of our children and grandchildren.” | Lit Hub Poetry

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• “A veritable maze of imagery, a labyrinth of connotation, a factory of concepts.” In praise of the long, complicated sentence. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Olivia Heffernan and Jamie McCallum on the “coolness” of unions and the rise of the New Labor Movement. | Lit Hub

• How the lyric essay became a site for resistance. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Professional violinist Ling Ling Huang considers the similarities between classical music and fiction writing. | Lit Hub Music

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• Reading Prince Harry’s memoir as a cult survivor. | Electric Lit

• Hollywood writers—half of whom are novelists at this point—are poised to go on strike. | The Daily Beast

• “The fact that we’ve possibly been calling her by the wrong name for nearly 500 years seems completely symptomatic.” In the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, Shakespeare’s wife takes centerstage. | The New York Times

• “The books that he chooses for his annual reading list are all his personal choices…” How are most literary of presidents chooses what he’s going to read next. | Esquire

• Inside the oldest children’s bookstore in America. | The Orange County Register

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Also on Lit Hub: The metaphysical space within literature • Charif Shanahan on making the unseen seen through poetry • Read from Laura Adamczyk’s debut novel, Island City