Lit Hub Daily: April 14, 2022

• “There is waste in nature, waste in art, and plenty of waste in the lives of women.” What can we learn from the vast archive of Muriel Rukeyser’s unfinished work? | Lit Hub Biography

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• The rich rule the world, writes Lauren Carroll Harris, and those rulers will soon be the sector of millennials who stand to inherit their parents’ assets. | Lit Hub

• “Just typing it seems like a waste of life.” Antonia Pont against (the very idea of) procrastination. | Lit Hub Philosophy

• Malevolent minor characters: How a mundane anthropologist and bureaucrat helped contribute to American colonialism. | Lit Hub History

• “While this book opened a window into another world for so many young girls like me, it was, for Selby, a tortuous reminder of a door that had closed so early.” Tova Mirvis on A Very Young Dancer and the life of its subject. | Lit Hub

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• Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones considers the “historiographic smear campaign” leveraged against ancient Persia. | Lit Hub History

• Michele Filgate on Samantha Hunt, Joyce Maynard on Delia Ephron, Lucie Elven on Anne Serre, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Stacey Halls recommends novels of power, deception, and control. | CrimeReads

• WATCH: N. K. Jemisin talks to the next generation of the Octavia Project, which fosters spaces of imagination for NYC teens. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• Here’s how the Brooklyn Public Library is contributing to the fight against ongoing book bans around the country. | NPR

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• Tirzah Price asks what books belong in the queer YA canon. | Book Riot

• Farah Abdessamad lists books that found a second life in English translation. | The Atlantic

• Why won’t the MFA discourse die? | Quite Useless

• “Putting down one of her books is like coming up for air.” Lucie Elven reads Anne Serre. | London Review of Books

• Amanda Gorman discusses her poetic roots. | Los Angeles Times

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• “His work connects the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries in ways readers and critics are only beginning to apprehend.” Christian Lorentzen on Gary Indiana’s essays. | Jacobin

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