Lit Hub Daily: April 26, 2023

• “I learned at a very early age that I wouldn’t be getting from my mother what most kids get from their mothers.” Lucinda William recalls the turbulence of growing up with a sick mother. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Diksa Bashu on learning to cook as an adult—and how returning to her grandmother’s Delhi kitchen also returned her to writing. | Lit Hub Food

• What Douglas Manuel is reading now and next, from Apocrifa to Voodoo Libretto. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• Virginia Sole-Smith unpacks anti-fat bias in youth sports. | Lit Hub Sports

• David Sexton considers Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: “What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal, that our time is limited, death inescapable.” | Lit Hub Criticism

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• On Black resistance through pottery in the 19th century. | NY Review of Books

• Young UK novelists discuss the reality of paying rent on author money. | The Guardian

• Older debut novelists lead the way on this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist. | Yahoo News

• “I like that [the concept of] backspace was originally just that—a space going backward…” On writing a history of the keyboard. | MIT Technology Review

• “Cultural disintegration.” Readers react to Christian Lorentzen’s lament for Bookforum. | The Washington Post

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• “I’m like, This is literary shit going on here.” Read a profile of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. | Vulture

Also on Lit Hub: James Canton on finding the sublime in solitude • A reading list of space operas with romance subplots • Read from Eliza Minot’s latest novel, In the Orchard