Lit Hub Daily: April 12, 2023

TODAY: In 1916, librarian and children’s author Beverly Cleary is born.   

• “What had I done, insisting on more of us?” Maggie Smith on the anxious, silent first year of motherhood. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• We asked, you answered: Here are 22 (more) adaptations better than the books they’re based on. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Ryan McGee captures the carnival that is Minor League Baseball entertainment (or, picking up the debris after Captain Dynamite’s spectacular brush with death). | Lit Hub Sports

• Sarah Hart considers the profound connections between math and poetry: “The goal of both is beauty.” | Lit Hub Poetry

• A look at the origins of Bookshop.org, and how it’s thriving (and helping indie bookstores) in Amazon’s world. | WIRED

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• Tyler Foggatt considers Yellowjackets and the long-standing literary tradition of cannibalism as love language. | The New Yorker

• Understanding “mirror-writing” might help us make sense of what happens in our brains when we write. | BBC Future

• Do you like science fiction and fantasy AND animals? Then these books are for you. | The Portalist

• “Was the ‘artificially intelligent’ chatbot ripping me off, personally?” One writer’s deep reckoning with ChatGPT. | InsideHook

Also on Lit Hub: Juliette Fay on writing complex older protagonists • Hanna Halperin on living with debilitating migraines • Read from Eirinie Carson’s debut novel, The Dead Are Gods

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