Lit Hub Daily: April 11, 2023

• Uncovering art history in Western Ukraine: Benjamin Balint recounts the unlikely discovery of Bruno Schulz’s fairy-tale murals. | Lit Hub Art

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• “If we’re talking about giving more people more time, it would have to be something more collective and structural.” Jenny Odell on the relationship between time and power. | Lit Hub Radio

• 25 new books to put on your radar. | The Hub

• “We need to keep living. And it’s easier to live when you have jokes.” Johannes Lichtman considers wartime humor in Ukraine. | Lit Hub Ukraine

• John Cotter reflects on finding a new way to write about the self after losing his hearing. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers features Kevin Chong, Gina Chung, Katherine Heiny, Brendan Slocumb, and Adam Sternbergh. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Rachel Heng on the similarities between raising a child and writing a novel: “Both brought sleepless nights, an overwhelming sense of impossibility, the panicked feeling that I simply will not be able to do this, the bone-deep conviction that I must.” | The Atlantic

• Laurie Colwin’s child, R. F. Jurjevics, on discovering their mother’s previously unpublished story “Evensong.” | The New Yorker

• María Kodama, writer, translator, and the widow of Jorge Luis Borges, has died at 86. | The New York Times

• Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic-book writer who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, has died at 77. | The Guardian

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• First they banned the books, now the GOP wants to defund the libraries. | MSNBC

Also on Lit Hub: Why a young Sam Shepard vowed to never become his father • Andrew Porter on writing about growing older • Read from Anna Metcalfe’s debut novel, Chrysalis