Lit Hub Daily: April 11, 2019

• “It no longer seems rational to assume that humanity… will behave rationally.” Nathaniel Rich on how the consensus on global warming was lost. | Lit Hub
• How to unsettle people by doing nothing: Jenny Odell on the small rebellion of inactivity. | Lit Hub
• “Sun sparkling off the river. Cats purring. Coffee brewing. Toasted bagel. Cream cheese. Lox. Home!” In praise of Ruth Reichl’s redemptive Twitter presence. | Lit Hub
• “We never fought in the kitchen. It’s hard to, when you’re standing side by side at the counter.” From the Bronx to Nigeria, how Kith/Kin’s Kwame Onwuachi became a chef. | Lit Hub
• Unraveling an unlikely family history: was Bram Presser Jewish grandfather handpicked by Hitler to curate the mysterious Museum of Extinct Races? | Lit Hub
• The first in Harmony Holiday’s new Disappearing Archive Series: LeRoi Jones on The Merv Griffin Show. | Lit Hub
• When a first-person narrator sneaks into your story: Jennifer duBois on the emergent I. | Lit Hub
• The mystery of Joy Division, the misery of Millennial living, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• Leye Adenle talks Nigerian crime fiction, modern life in Lagos, and humor—our “favorite drug to numb the soul,” with CrimeReads’ Molly Odintz. | CrimeReads
• The 2019 Guggenheim fellows include Carmen Maria Machado, Catherine Lacey, Patricia Engel, and Shane McRae. | Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• This year’s Met Gala theme is… Susan Sontag? | Vogue
• According to this stylistic analysis, the most Austenian of Jane Austen’s novels is Emma, and the most Austenian phrases are “am sure,” “the others,” and “her sister.” Typical Jane. | Medium
• The Libro de los Epítomes, which catalogues the 16th-century book collection of Hernando Colón—Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son—was found in Copenhagen. The manuscript contains summaries of many works that no longer exist. | The Guardian
• “You fly over the desert, or race across it, but you don’t actually have to experience it. It’s a circumscribed adventure”: Tim Parks on why trains, planes, and all kinds of automobiles have long enthralled writers, from Dostoevsky to Woolf. | The New York Review of Books
• Sweet’N Low presents: literature! A brief history of product placement in books. | Vox
• The books on the Best Translated Book Awards longlists could have you eye-deep in great writing (and translating!) for quite some time. | The Millions

Also on Lit Hub: On Otherppl, Richard Chiem talks surviving his sad, relatable protagonist • 15 great cat poems • Lizzie Post got stoned every day to write about pot etiquette • Read from Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian