Lit Hub Daily: April 13, 2022

• “Does reading make you more haunted by more ghosts? Are books dead? Are books ghosts?” Samantha Hunt on the delirium of loving language. | Lit Hub

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• Why Elissa Sussman loves a horny heroine. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Is art more gift or capital? Annie Hartnett on creating connection instead of commodity. | Lit Hub

• “When you watch it, you cringe and then whatever cringed in you cringes.” Sommer Browning on the time Andy Warhol was on The Love Boat. | Lit Hub

• Jeff Deutsch on the magic of a bookstore’s quiet moments. | Lit Hub Bookstores

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• Dawn Winter in praise of flawed heroines (and against labels). | Lit Hub

• “The goal is to write regularly enough that it feels weird not to do it, so that you generate material.” Jennifer Egan’s advice for emerging writers. | LARB

• A brief history of the noble bookmobile. | Book Riot

• “His therapist had warned him, ‘Do not enter into competition with Tad, nor conform to his casting of your character.’” Tad Friend reconsiders his relationship with his late father. | The New Yorker

• Relive some of the most unforgettable meals in literature, from Harriet the Spy’s tomato sandwich to chicken soup with rice. | The Atlantic

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• Writers on the books they think should be more widely read. | The Irish Times

• Ruth Wilson describes how rereading Jane Austen’s work has brought “a rejuvenation of spirit and energy that has transformed my life.” | The Guardian

• “One of the great joys of being human is to exhibit curiosity, to learn, to teach, to evolve, and I think we need it desperately, in our communities and our civic spaces.” Sam Gee talks to Jeff Deutsch, director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores. | The Point

Also on Lit Hub: Valzhyna Mort discusses the patient listening of writing poetry • A poem by Eloisa Amezcua • Read a story from Budi Darma’s newly translated collection, People from Bloomington (tr. Tiffany Tsao)