Lit Hub Daily: April 21, 2023

Of pens and notebooks: Do writers fetishize their tools too much… Or not enough? | Lit Hub Style

“Mothers and non-mothers can’t even talk to each other, popular culture tells us.” On the not always civil divide between those who have children and those who don’t. | Lit Hub

“No bees, no food.” How insects help farmers with their harvest. | Lit Hub Food

Here are the best reviewed books of the week, featuring David Grann, Han Kang, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism

Victor LaValle talks to Maris Kreizman about the truth of family secrets (namely: they’re not all that secret). | Lit Hub Radio

Are we entering an era of the environmental activist cowboy hero? Taylor Moore on tales of the New Green West. | CrimeReads

A new book tells the story of humanity from the perspective of the bugs that shaped us. | The Atlantic

On the complicated present (and future) of using A.I. as a writer. | NY Times

Hey grammar nerds, apparently “Punctuation turns out to be a universal and indispensable complement to the mathematical perfection of every language studied.” So way to go. | Phys.org

Almost every book Judy Blume has written was banned somewhere in America. | Distractify

Here are ten Black-owned bookstores you can visit this summer on your delightful cross-country bookstore road trip! | Ebony

“Can a reader’s experience of fictional landscapes shape her interaction with actual landscapes?” Yes. The answer is yes. | Christianity Today