Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2019

• 365 books to start your climate change library: fiction and poetry edition. | Lit Hub
• “Street View functioned a bit like headlights—it narrowed my focus in a way I that needed for the novel to move forward.” Wandering the Arctic Circle (on Google Maps). | Lit Hub
• Moving back to West Virginia, in fiction and in life: Mesha Maren returns home in Sugar Run. | Lit Hub
• The improbable history of baseball’s weirdest pitch. | Lit Hub
• “Books aren’t just for reading; they’re also for having.” Saying goodbye to a beloved local bookstore. | Lit Hub
• The lessons of recording a half-century’s worth of reading (read more women, for one). | Lit Hub
• “The default way of thinking about this long, complex era is to assume it all looked like the cover of a heavy metal album.” Shedding light on the “Dark Ages.” | Lit Hub
• Ahead of the Edgar Awards this Thursday, 20+ nominees come together for a roundtable discussion on the state of mystery and crime fiction. | CrimeReads
• This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Amy Brady on Rita Indiana, Rachel Carson, and the literature of climate change. | Book Marks
• Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat has won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. | Book Marks
• Do the climate catastrophe books of Nathaniel Rich and David Wallace-Wells go far enough in condemning fossil fuel industry lobbyists? Wen Stephenson makes a case. | The Baffler
• “The novelist has to make the way by going.” Even when she’s going for 17 years. Elizabeth Cook on the merits of writing slowly. | Granta
• Is the energy and lyricism of early 20th-century sports columns a “lost” art? | The Atlantic
• “He had a very good sense of what he wanted to do, what he wanted to stand for, what he wouldn’t stand for.” Daniel Halpern on editing (and knowing) Anthony Bourdain. | Grub Street
• The Tolkien estate has disavowed the new Tolkien biopic; people will probably go see it anyway. | The Guardian
• “Infectious disease blows apart our assumptions about insularity.” Eula Biss on vaccinations (and the “vaccine hesitant”). | The Cut
• We have George Clooney to thank for the upcoming Catch-22 adaptation. | Vanity Fair
• “When my wife died, my life was thrown out of time. My past didn’t seem to connect to my present.” Matthew Salesses on grief, memory, and the feeling of time. | Longreads

Also on Lit Hub: Tressie McMillan Cottom talks resisting trauma cannibalization on Reading Women • Apps that remind you you’re going to die: on death positivity • Scenes of a doomed marriage: Blake Hazard on reading about her great-grandparents, Scott and Zelda • Read from Lena Andersson’s Acts of Infidelity (trans. Saskia Vogel).