Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2021

TODAY: In 1896, English novelist Margaret Kennedy is born. 

• Kate Aronoff draws a line from the Green New Deal back to FDR’s New Deal, which “reimagined what the US government could do, what it was for, and who it served.” | Lit Hub Politics

• “The things that mark you will come out in your work; they’re like horses fleeing a burning barn, and you have to be ready to ride them.” How the ICU influence Paul Griner’s novel. | Lit Hub

• Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Here are seven author-owned bookstores that should be on your radar. | Lit Hub Bookstores

• Lilly Dancyger considers the validation that an Ivy League grad school degree can offer… and everything else it can cost. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “Unless I communicate what my identity is, readers may assume I’m white.” Ursula Pike on the fine line between a signifier and a trope. | Lit Hub Craft

• Aija Mayrock recommends transcendental women poets, including Qiu Jin and Lucille Clifton. | Lit Hub Poetry

• “I had wanted the producer to explore with me how the lynching story of my history might be a part of my psyche and my conception story.” Cassandra Lane on motherhood and the weight of memory. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “The more you look, the more you see.” Sabina Stent takes a deep dive into the playful surrealism of The Thomas Crown Affair. | CrimeReads

• New titles by Richard Wright, Jenny Diski, and Anthony Bourdain all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Get a sneak peek of Mission Creek Festival’s lineup, kicking off virtually next week, with Gina Frangello reading from Night Rooms. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• Alexander Chee offers advice for listening to your inner writer’s voice (because chances are, it’s there). | Medium

• “This is a town of lies, of make-believe, which even invented a word to describe its natural tendency to embellish: galéjades.” François Thomazeau walks through Marseille. | The Markaz Review

• How Peter Mark Roget went from ambivalent medical school graduate to thesaurus daddy. | Smithsonian Magazine

• Harsha Walia talks about her new book, Border and Rule, and the possibilities of a border-free globe. | The Nation

• From “brogurt” to Guy Fieri: Emily J. H. Contois considers consumer culture and how food is marketed to men. | Bitch Media

• If you miss small talk, you’re not the only one. | The Walrus

• “This place itself creates stories.” Hear from the owners of New Orleans’ Faulkner House Books. | Very Local New Orleans

Also on Lit Hub: Throwing a rave in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone • Five books you may have missed in march • Read from Maylis De Kerangal’s newly translated novel, Painting Time (trans. Jessica Moore)

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