Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2020

• Watching Normal People have very good sex: on adapting Sally Rooney to the small screen. | Lit Hub TV
• EVERY DAY SHOULD BE EARTH DAY: “The world watches as we proceed toward a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.” Noam Chomsky on the promise of a Green New Deal · Finding hope for the natural world in poetry · Reacquaint yourself with Lit Hub’s Climate Change Library: The Classics, The Science, The Ideas, The Art (and don’t forget the books we missed). | Lit Hub Climate Change
• “What better way to write from the imagination than being at a distance, ignoring the confinements of one’s immediate reality?” An Yu, thinking of Beijing, while stuck in New York. | Lit Hub
• ON THE VBC: On Sheltering, Jennifer Finney Boylan talks boyhood, dogs, and unconditional love · Stephen Sparks and David Farrier discuss deep time and humanity’s legacy, on Rekindled. | Lit Hub
• Lawrence Joseph on Robert Hayden, Etel Adnan, Adrienne Rich, and Cathy Park Hong—poets whose word can help us find a way forward amid the pandemic. | Lit Hub
• “Our role as poet, as novelist, and essayist, as short story writer, is to make sense of what it means to be.” Christian Kiefer on writing and hope in the age of pandemic. | Lit Hub
• The trials of Jared K.: At the podium with the first son-in-law. | Lit Hub Politics
• Are Christian churches the next bastion of American socialism? Jack Jenkins on the religious left’s attempts to fight poverty. | Lit Hub Politics
• In honor of Earth Day, Katie Yee recommends 13 books where the earth comes alive, from The Lord of the Rings to The Giving Tree. | Book Marks
• Where the Sidewalk Ends, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Lord of the Flies, and more rapid-fire book recs from Stephanie Wrobel. | Book Marks
• (Mentally) escape quarantine with April’s best international crime novels. | CrimeReads
• Build up your quarantine book hoard with 20 of this week’s new releases. | The Hub
• “I once flew to London when I couldn’t afford a ham sandwich to sit in a hotel room with a single videotape in hopes of hand-delivering it to Stanley Kubrick.” Read an excerpt from Val Kilmer’s memoir. | The Daily Beast
• “Let’s all agree now that we’re only giving books as gifts this holiday season.” How independent publishers are responding to the pandemic. | PEN America
• Author Chatchai Wisetsuwannaphum has died at 89. His adventure series Petch Phra Uma, written over 25 years and totaling more than 18,000 pages, is thought to be the longest Thai story ever. | Bangkok Post
• The case for keeping a coronavirus journal. | Time
• Poets answer the question: How do they decide which piece will end a collection? | Chicago Review of Books
• Steven Underwood can’t seem to find one particular kind of fantasy story—one in which black boys are fully fleshed-out wizards and sorcerers. | Tor
• What does studying Shakespeare teach us about thinking? | Inside Higher Ed

Also on Lit Hub: The cast of characters at Chelsea’s legendary flea market • Assimilation and 80s punk culture in small-town Pennsylvania • Read a story by Madeleine L’Engle from The Moment of Tenderness.