Lit Hub Daily: April 16, 2021

• How working in the thick of the Civil War helped Walt Whitman realize he had (even) more to contribute than poetry. | Lit Hub Biography

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• INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: The founders of Two Dollar Radio talk about starting a press— and a family—in their twenties. | Lit Hub

• “Stunt reporters put a new female character in the headlines—not a victim of assault or murder, but a protagonist.” Kim Todd on the women who forever changed memoir and journalism. | Lit Hub History

• Garrett Caples recounts the challenge and mysticism of editing Beat legend Michael McClure. | Lit Hub Poetry

• “What does it mean for us, in what Briona Simone Jones calls and claims as an expansive Black lesbian literary tradition, to claim an intimate relationship with rain?” Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Anguilla and ancestral connections. | Lit Hub

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• Julia Sanches on “bringing strange little vessels into the world” through literary translation, and the joys of translating Eve Baltasar. | Lit Hub Translation

• “Power travels across so many lines, and I’ve decided there is no neutral place from which to write.” Penina Eilberg-Schwartz on telling a Palestinian story as a white American Jew. | Lit Hub

• A new study of Hitchcock’s films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission: check out April’s best in crime nonfiction. | CrimeReads

• New titles by Patrick Radden Keefe, Elizabeth McCracken, and Cynthia Ozick all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan has been released from prison in Istanbul after more than four years. | Al-Jazeera

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• “The fact that it wasn’t initially taken seriously, it’s sort of astonishing now.” A brief oral history of the romance genre. | The Washington Post

• Tanna Tucker reflects on exile and the long history of Black American artists seeking refuge in Paris, in comic form. | The Believer

• A. E. Osworth considers how the “idea of disruption assumes a vacuum that doesn’t exist.” | Catapult 

• Craig Morgan Teicher talks about how the internet has expanded the audience for and accessibility of poetry. | Christian Science Monitor

• A new book by Robert Zaretsky takes on the life of Simone Weil, who was “hard to pin down with any neat, easy label,” Wen Stephenson writes. | The Baffler

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• In her new memoir, Gina Frangello aimed to “[capture] this intergenerational, interdisciplinary dialogue about women’s roles,” she tells Clancey D’Isa. | Chicago Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: Searching for answers to Mt. Everest’s greatest mystery among the artifacts of early climbers • Hillary Leichter talks with J. Nicole Jones about Low Country • Read from Jim Lewis’ latest novel, Ghosts of New York