Lit Hub Daily: April 3, 2020

• THESE TIMES: Days without name: Heidi Pitlor on time in the time of coronavirus · The tale of Zimmy, a very good quarantine dog · More personalized book recommendations for your quarantine reading · We might be here a while: organize your home office · And here is a livestream of a library for birds. Yup.  ON THE VBC: Emily St. John Mandel on Sheltering · Andrew Altschul and Ellen Meeropol on Rekindled · The first ever Copper Canyon Livestream Launch! · A set by Spectral Snake on Mission Creek Underground. | Life in a Pandemic
• “Nature is a problem we can’t engineer our way out of. But, like the beavers, we might engineer our way back into it.” What the beaver can teach us about conservation. | Lit Hub Nature
• Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, Hadley Freeman’s House of Glass, and César Aira’s Artforum all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “The way Pip himself responds to Ahab is a model for how we should think of one another in a crisis like this one.” Vijay Seshadri on Whitman and Melville in the time of coronavirus. | MacDowell Colony
• Biographer Megan Marshall on cemeteries, silence, and the death of her partner, poet Scott Harney. | Arrowsmith Press
• Ed Park on Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, a “brash modernist comic novel” that helped define Korean-American literary traditions. | The New York Review of Books
• Damon Lindelof is publishing a daily serialized mystery story called Something, Something, Something Murder. | NextDraft
• Lovers of live theater, don’t despair: these novels may help satisfy you for now. | The New York Times
• Robert Zaretsky on finding himself “with days, perhaps months, to sit on stools and contemplate the ways Kafka’s trial resembles our trial.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “In these novels, the prose brokers no compromise.” Rivka Galchen reads Clarice Lispector. | London Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: When Greek mythology meets celebrity culture: Emily Roberson in conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network • Min Jin Lee on “loan words” and George Eliot’s wisdom, with Will Schwalbe on But That’s Another Story • On the Italian artists who fought for freedom • When the NRA stood up to the gun industry • Read an excerpt from Megan Giddings’ debut novel Lakewood.