Lit Hub Daily: April 28, 2023

• To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day, the Lit Hub staff pens odes to ten of the best bookstores in the world. | Lit Hub

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• Michelle Yeoh stars in American Born Chinese, the Gossip Girl creators adapt City on Fire, and two star-studded casts take on an apocalypse and Watergate (respectively) in the Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May. | Lit Hub

• “White women are not just responsible for literally perpetuating the white race; white mothers are responsible for instilling white supremacist ideology in their children.” When QAnon meets momfluencer culture. | Lit Hub Politics

• A reading list of the Vietnam War, 50 years on. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Dennis Lehane’s Small Mercies, Claire Dederer’s Monsters, Emily Henry’s Happy Place, and Lucinda Williams’s Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Weeks. | Book Marks

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• Neil Gaiman is releasing his first album, a collection of prose and poetry set to music with Australian indie string quartet FourPlay. | The Hub

• New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates. | The New Yorker

• Finally, some new images have been released for Martin Scorcese’s upcoming adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon. | IndieWire

• “How does a person go in search of the precisely right book that will incite a feeling?” Molly Templeton would like a literary mood ring. | Tor

Also on Lit Hub: In praise of Jessica Fletcher’s radical pedagogy • Jaime Green on writing with research • Read from Anzia Yezierska’s rereleased novel, Bread Givers