Lit Hub Daily: April 27, 2023

• “I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• McKayla Coyle recommends sapphic reads for every occasion (like if “you’re a sad girl, or a hot girl, or a hot, sad girl”). | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• A spring bouquet, AKA the 13 best book covers of April. | Lit Hub Design

• Shubha Sunder on writing between India and Boston: “To be over here while writing about over there has been an exercise in defining who I am.” | Lit Hub

• “The dividing line between truth and nonsense isn’t always easy to discern.” Five Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

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• The hottest underground author in China? Japan’s Chizuko Ueno. | The Guardian

• Penguin Classics reveals how the canon gets made. | Penguin

• Librarians are fighting back: a New Jersey librarian is suing for defamation after residents complain of “pornographic” books. | NJ.com

• Lyz Lenz goes behind the scenes of that Tucker Carlson profile. | Men Yell At Me

• On Norman Mailer, whose letters “reveal a megalomaniacally ambitious young man congenitally prone to embellishment, unsound theorizing, and self-aggrandizing roleplay.” | The Baffler

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• Tajja Isen on the Internet Archive Lawsuit, book bans, library budget cutbacks, and labor issues at major publishing houses. | The Walrus

Also on Lit Hub: The problem with gender-reversed teen sex comedies • Pete Earley recommends five important books on incarceration • Read a story from Kenan Orhan’s debut collection, I Am My Country