Lit Hub Daily: April 17, 2020

• Friends, we’re still here for you: Round five of our personalized quarantine book recommendations, for your ongoing isolation reading. | Lit Hub
• ON THE VBC: Emily Gould talks empathy and OutKast on Sheltering · On Personal Space, Samantha Irby on the great indoors · And in case you missed it, Kristen Arnett hangs out with Esmé Weijun Wang.  | Lit Hub
• “Doty has vanquished boundaries—placed his own life, his own language, his own desire, alongside Whitman’s.” On Mark Doty, Paul Lisicky, and the role of the self in memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Novelist Jessi Jezewska Stevens takes a virtual gallery tour with Michael Barron. | Lit Hub
• “Grizzly.” A poem from Ellen Bass’s collection, Indigo. | Lit Hub
• Take a look at some of the all-time great kids’ books by serious writers, from Hemingway to Woolf. | Lit Hub
• Are basketball superstars more loyal to their teams, or sneaker companies? Ethan Sherwood Strauss offers a Steph Curry case study. | Lit Hub Sports
• Molly Odintz and Dwyer Murphy recommend 10 iconic crime series of the 1960s perfect for binge-reading. | CrimeReads
• Chilean writer and political activist Luis Sepúlveda, author of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, has died of coronavirus at 70. | The Hub
• “Think of all the things you hope will still be there in that castle of the future when we get across. Then do what you can, now, to ensure the future existence of those things.” Margaret Atwood on what to do now. | TIME
• A Public Space has launched a collection of free pieces from the magazine’s archive—an “in-between issue for an in-between time.” The collection will be updated weekly, and the first one includes a story by Kelly Link. | A Public Space
• “Unlike the big publishers, we were looking for books that fell in between genres, ultimately transcending them.” Olivia Taylor Smith on starting Unnamed Press. | Shondaland
• Crowdfunding, layoffs, Zoom events: if there was ever an indie bookstore “renaissance,” the coronavirus has ensured that it is over. | New Republic
• As social distancing continues, people are turning to the Stoics for guidance on how to live. | The Guardian
• PEN America is demanding greater access to e-readers and tablets for incarcerated people. | PEN America

Also on Lit Hub: Why has it always been so hard to treat the common cold? • Brief variations on the writer’s life • Read an excerpt from Joanna Hershon’s new novel St. Ivo.