Lit Hub Daily: April 3, 2019

• Enjoy these unused alternative covers of modern classics, from Lincoln in the Bardo to Things We Lost in the Fire. | Lit Hub
• “If a poem wants written at 3 am I get up.” Jenni Fagan on the urgency and life-saving necessity of writing poetry. | Lit Hub
• “Perhaps it’s time we made workshop less a test of endurance and more a space of open discussion.” Beth Nguyen on making MFA workshops better for writers | Lit Hub
• 19 books you should read this month, as recommended by Lit Hub staff and contributors. | Lit Hub
• Read an interview with the owners of Eso Won Books, one of the country’s oldest Black-owned bookstores. | Lit Hub
• Enjoy the illustrations of Gébé, the French satirist who brought anarchy into art. | Lit Hub
• Aging in America: Cherríe Moraga on her mother’s struggles and being Mexican in a white world. | Lit Hub
• Why is domestic labor a source of so much ambivalence (no matter who performs it)? | Lit Hub
• “We’re taught to write what you know.” Puzzle-challenged author Parnell Hall on finding new ways to relate to his crossword-solving protagonist. | CrimeReads
• Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Read in April: feat. William Gibson, Rebecca Roanhorse, queer Shakespeare, and more. | Book Marks
• This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: NPR’s Jason Sheehan on Neuromancer, Elif Batuman and glorious geekery. | Book Marks
• Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is taking a leave of absence after a scandal over her children’s book series starring Healthy Holly. | Baltimore Sun
• Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more: the 2019 Hugo Award finalists have been announced. | Tor
• Just as you suspected: it’s much better to read to your child from a print book than from a tablet. | Mental Floss
• “Nabokov was never to mourn the immense wealth from which he had been separated, only the lost, liberal chapter of Russian history”: How did the Russian Revolution, and exile, shape Vladimir Nabokov’s writing career? | The New York Times
• Vonda N. McIntyre, author of feminist science fiction, died Monday at age 70. | Locus
• “There is definitely a gender gap in the world of Anglophone classical translation, far more so than in Anglophone classical scholarship”: Robert Wood interviews Emily Wilson on the politics of representation in classical studies and translation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “It was standing room only in Narragansett A as Paula Froke, the lead editor of the A.P. Stylebook, ran through her slides.” Mary Norris reports from the American Copy Editors Conference. | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: Reading Women‘s Ramadan episode, with special guest Amena Ravat • On making Mary Berry’s fast cakes, and not writing • Angela Davis on protest, 1968, and her teacher, Herbert Marcuse • Read from Lost and Wanted