Lit Hub Daily: April 13, 2021

• “If the laws are few and far between in South Carolina, the rules that govern our folklore are kept strict, and any ghost worth her salt respects such soundness.” J. Nicole Jones on familiar ghosts and family legacies. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Ross King on the laborious process of bookmaking in the 15th century, which required an entire goat for each page of parchment in a large liturgical book (our apologies to the goats). | Lit Hub History

• Hear ye, hear ye: New Books Tuesday is upon us. | The Hub

• Why were women written out of the story of the gold rush? | Lit Hub History

• “There are those for whom New York was only ever a playground, and I feel similarly about them. They never deserved it.” Emily Raboteau on what the pandemic showed us about a certain kind of New Yorker. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Jamie Figueroa talks to Jane Ciabattari about amplifying side characters, creating stakes, and writing outside a dominant culture. | Lit Hub

• “Although it isn’t infectious like a virus, depression thrives on proximity, traveling down familial attachments, especially from mother to child.” Alex Riley on family history and the evolution of modern psychiatry. | Lit Hub

• What does Rear Window say about Hitchcock’s penchant for voyeurism? According to Edward White, quite a lot. | CrimeReads

• “Gross, grotesque, gruesome, and horrible throughout”: a 1963 review of Günter Grass’ “Teutonic nightmare,” The Tin Drum. | Book Marks

• French publishing house Gallimard has received such a deluge of manuscripts that it’s asked authors to stop sending them (for a while, anyway). | Yahoo News

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• How the 1950 film noir classic In a Lonely Place examines the relationship between art and accountability. | Bright Wall/Dark Room

• This month’s 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Angela Hur, Blake Bailey, Nimmi Gowrinathan, KT Sparks, and Nathaniel Rich. | Lit Hub

• “Americans have gradually assimilated to our cultures, our worldview, and our modes of connecting to nature.” David Treuer argues for the return of national parks to Native tribes. | The Atlantic

• Lori Emerson dives into the history of the early internet and “precisely how Black men and women built alternative networks.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Bryan Washington explores how a year without queer spaces has changed queer friendship, which is “amorphous and endless, sticking its nose up at whatever boundaries you attempt to enforce upon it.” | The New York Times

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• “What happens in the hat books is not necessarily commensurate with their actions. No one has it coming that much. But it still happens.” Jon Klassen on trusting children with difficult realities. | The Walrus

• Read about how J. Robert Lennon conceptualized his new short story collection, Let Me Think. | Ploughshares

Also on Lit Hub: JoAnne Tompkins considers the inner life of an aging shelter dog • Maria Kuznetsova offers 15 lessons from writing two novels that didn’t sell • Read a story from Bolu Babalola’s new collection, Love in Color