Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2023

• “They were dispatches from my inner world, so attuned to the storms of childhood and adolescence I blushed while reading their pages.” Julie Buntin on the uncanny omniscience of Judy Blume. | Lit Hub

  Article continues after advertisement

• Lauren Groff on this year’s winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction and the “thriving ecosystem of the short story.” | Lit Hub

• “I am sick of men and women / but am not therefore going / sentimental and praising the wisdom of animals.” Read “Equinox ’75,” a poem by Ursula Le Guin. | Lit Hub Poetry

• What, exactly, is the new series adaptation of The Power trying to say? Alexis Gunderson digs in. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Whether I commit to the child or the work, part of me becomes gnarled and neglected, because we can’t separate the artist from the mother.” Amanda Parrish Morgan on the monstrousness lurking inside motherhood. | Lit Hub

  Article continues after advertisement

• Jonathan Rosen recalls smuggling The Literary Guide to the Bible into the psych ward for a friend. | Lit Hub

• Why 1969’s Army of Shadows—based on the book by Joseph Kessel—is the best spy movie of all time. | Collider

• “Choose a few titles from the growing list of banned books.” Judy Blume shares her must-reads. | The New York Times

• What is it like to fall in love in London? Adelaide author Genevieve Wheeler offers seven books that provide an answer. | Electric Lit

• Delia Owens’s journey to help poachers find a better line of work. | The Washington Post

  Article continues after advertisement

• Why Alice Birch (Succession, Normal People, and now Dead Ringers) may be the most quietly radical writer for TV right now. | The Atlantic

• Libraries devastated by the war in Ukraine are removing their Russian literature. | New York Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with Pattiann Rogers • New poetry by Emily Lee Luan • Read from Philippe Delerm’s newly translated story collection, Second Star: and Other Reasons for Lingering (tr. Jody Gladding)