Lit Hub Daily: April 15, 2021

• Before Stonewall, there was the Black Cat Tavern: Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on the first gay rally against police violence in America. | Lit Hub History

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• “If any place was to reflect the new world order, the recognition that women counted, shouldn’t public radio be that place?” Lisa Napoli looks back at four women who changed broadcast journalism. | Lit Hub

• Stephen Walker tells the story of the first USSR cosmonauts, who—unlike America’s celebrity astronauts—trained in an ultra-secret facility hidden deep
  in a forest. | Lit Hub History

• Chelsea Wald traces the global history of urban sewer systems, which civilized some cities and brought out the murderers in others. | Lit Hub History

• Bruno Lloret recommends six Latin American novels that break with tradition. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• While librarians may be “unassuming, cardigan-wearing bookworms,” M.E. Hilliard says, they’re also natural-born detectives. | CrimeReads

• Rumaan Alam on Ishiguro, Merve Emre on “emotional intelligence,” and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• “As Taylor saw it, the connections being made between racist violence, US empire, and austerity in this iteration of Black Lives Matter were proof of progress. The election? Much less so.” Read a profile of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. | Lux

• A look back: During the 1918 flu pandemic, libraries became vital providers of public health information. | JSTOR Daily

• “I write every weekday morning. And often in the afternoon. And sometimes before dinner.” In other words, Paul Theroux is always writing. | Lit Hub

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• Sari Botton on learning what it means to truly miss New York City. | The Guardian

• Passion, misplaced trust, and consequences are at the forefront of this reading list of revenge stories. | The Guardian

• High school teacher Paola Capó-García explores the challenges and opportunities of high school poetry in the age of Zoom. | Teachers & Writers

• What poetry can teach novelists: a roundup from Caroline Hardaker. | Lit Hub

• “Many settlers were keen on borrowing these words, even as they killed the people who coined them.” Joshua Jelly-Shapiro on the Indigenous languages with which New York City’s places were named. | The New Yorker

• Although her first two books were works of nonfiction, Morgan Jerkins says she “always wanted to be a fiction writer.” | Shondaland

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• Here’s how Maria Kuznetsova conducted the historical research for her new novel, Something Unbelievable. | Full Stop

Also on Lit Hub: Michael Spitzer on how the brain recognizes music • Read from Adam Mansbach’s memoir in verse, I Had a Brother Once • Read from Deirdre McNamer’s latest novel, Aviary