Lit Hub Daily: April 25, 2023

TODAY: In 1914, Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of the 1948 novel Raintree County, is born in Bloomington, Indiana.     

• “Writing is as important as my children. Just thinking it made me want to throw up.” Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the divided mother. | Lit Hub

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• 17 new books to add to your TBR pile. | The Hub

• Ten screen adaptations much, much worse than the books they’re based on. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• The birth of Pornhub: Kelsy Burke tracks how pornography infiltrated virtually all forms of contemporary media. | Lit Hub

• “A hypnagogic horror show.” Brian Dillon on migraines and scotoma, and trying to describe the geometry of blind spots. | Lit Hub Health

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• Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” 25th anniversary shortlist. | Lit Hub

• Elly Griffiths says goodbye to her beloved, long-running series. | CrimeReads

• Christine Smallwood on how Bret Easton Ellis confronts the specter of aging and living in his own shadow. | NY Review of Books

• Alissa Bennett retraces Ex-Wife author Ursula Parrott’s rise and fall as a divorceé. | The Paris Review

• What the “hurried” writing on the waterlogged pages of Toni Morrison’s diaries reveal at Princeton’s archival exhibition | The Atlantic

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• The London Book Fair brought with it a new award for first-time novelists over 50. | The Guardian

• Matthew Perry will be self-editing Keanu out of his memoir. | Rolling Stone

• Abigail Covington on the new battleground over what kids and teens should be reading: the public library. | Esquire

Also on Lit Hub: How knowledge of the natural world can save lives • Sarah Cypher on Turkish cats • Read from Tyriek White’s debut novel, We Are a Haunting

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