Lit Hub Daily: April 15, 2022

TODAY: In 1925, Vladimir Nabokov marries Vera Slonim in Berlin.  

• A poisonous trespass: How a group of concerned citizens started the fight against DDT. | Lit Hub Nature

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• “American culture feeds upon lost people. What we hold are grudges and guns.” Steve Edwards considers violence, agency, and what a teacher can do. | Lit Hub

• How Benjamin Franklin helped create modern philanthropy. | Lit Hub History

• Liana Finck on how to write like a cartoonist and adapt a story as old as time: the Hebrew Bible. | Lit Hub Craft

• “I want to write about a new, global cosmopolitan and Mediterranean Croatia…. But the people I meet in Zagreb will not wholly cooperate.” Is Croatia is going the reactionary route of Poland and Hungary? | Lit Hub Politics

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• New titles from Dolan Perkins-Valdez, Margo Jefferson, Delia Ephron, and more feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “As I consider the married queers I know, it seems plausible that queer people have changed marriage as much as it’s changed us.” Garth Greenwell considers a “new and undramatic happiness.” | Esquire

• Nicole Chung offers advice for writing about people in your life. | The Atlantic

• “Being a triplet was not like being a twin. I did not have a friend for life. Instead, I had been cast into a hostile miniature society.” Charlie Tyson on triplethood and tales of identity. | The Point

• David Ulin looks at the history of the Stanley Rose Book Shop, a haven for Los Angeles writers during the 1930s. | Los Angeles Times

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• “I never in a million years thought I’d have to defend this book.” Jason Tharp on facing resistance for It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn!. | The Washington Post

• What are the best books under 200 pages? | Book Riot

• Kyle Schnitzer speaks to Ken Ruzicka about the tragic accident that killed Frank O’Hara, and life after. | Vanity Fai

Also on Lit Hub: How The Flight Attendant fares off-book • Lynn Hill on conquering the climb up El Capitan • Read from Kyung-Sook Shin’s newly translated novel, Violets (tr. Anton Hur) 

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