Lit Hub Daily: April 22, 2022

TODAY: In 1616, Miguel de Cervantes dies.  

• EARTH DAY 2022: 19 writers on where they locate hope amid climate change • How to save the planet, one level of change at a time • 365 books to start your climate change library. | Lit Hub Climate Change

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• “This was the lasting therapeutic conclusion drawn from my Royal readings: They’re just as fucked up as anybody.” Robert Leleux on surviving a breakdown by reading nothing but royal biographies. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Kristen Green considers the erased lives of enslaved women forced to bear their enslavers’ children. | Lit Hub History

• “There are certain moments that cry out for the handwritten.” Anna Quindlen on the power of the pen. | Lit Hub Craft

• When German business tycoons funded Hitler. | Lit Hub History

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• Did Thomas Edison “disappear” his motion-picture rival? | Lit Hub History

• “The mark of motherhood has been well-documented; the mark of stepmotherhood less so.” Chloe Caldwell on invisible parenthood. | Lit Hub

• Tove Ditlevsen’s The Trouble With Happiness, Gary Indiana’s Fire Season, and Sascha Rothchild’s Blood Sugar all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Jesse Pasternak on the (secret) crime novels of E. L. Doctorow. | CrimeReads

• Forty poets, painters, photographers, filmmakers, actors, musicians, and writers discuss their creative processes. | T Magazine

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• “Why not publish reviews that are written for the kind of audience that doesn’t need convincing to read a lengthy essay on a book instead of watching a TV show?” Kyle Paoletta considers the past and future of the New York Times Book Review. | The Nation

• A few tips for decluttering and organizing enormous book collections, from Kristen Arnett, Elissa Altman, and more. | Apartment Therapy

• “For years, Rankine has been pressing on the visible bruise of the white glance.” Rhoda Feng on Claudia Rankine’s Help. | Public Books

• Shannon Keating marks the ten-year anniversary of Fifty Shades of Grey, which “brought to the fore our culture’s darkest fears and desires when it comes to kink, sexuality, and the role of feminism.” | BuzzFeed

• “I think we’re laboring under a moment in which many believe that the sole function of art is to provide moral guidance.” Jen Silverman discusses art and cultural institutions. | MacDowell

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• Trevor Quirk on the lessons of new books about conspiracy theories and the damage they do. | Guernica

Also on Lit Hub: Lessons from Tacitus • A poem by Luke Hathaway •  Read a story from Don Lee’s latest collection, The Partition

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