Lit Hub Daily: April 3, 2023

• “Transness emerges at the sight of other trans people living happily in the world.” Rafael Frumkin on top surgery, the beauty of the trans body, and building a world to feel safe in. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• How Fabio Pusterla discovered a lifelong love of poetry (translated by Will Schutt). | Lit Hub Poetry

• Dubravka Ugrešić’s translators pay tribute to her and her work: “For many of us who had left the disintegrating Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Dubravka was the poet of our newfound and embittered worldliness and the literary alchemist of our fragile memories.” | Lit Hub In Memoriam

• Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on seeing his father’s face on the cover of his new memoir. | Lit Hub Design

• Lucy Scholes revisits Marina Warner’s The Lost Father, a novel within a novel about a “particularly potent and redolent family legend.” | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Christopher de Bellaigue considers the flaws in our contemporary climate behavior. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Dan Cohen looks into the Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive case: “It will impoverish readers across the country seeking access to digital books, and over time diminish the library as a democratic institution that provides broad collections to everyone.” | The Atlantic

• Elaine Hsieh Chou (facetiously) recommends acceptable book cover subjects for books by East Asian women authors. | McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• “For me, getting better as a writer is learning how to get to the essence of things.” Deesha Philyaw chats with Sari Botton. | Memoir Monday

• “Guests danced to Oasis beneath the disco ball while others chain-smoked beside space heaters.” On the brief life and death of a downtown New York literary salon. | The New York Times

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• “There were stretches when I made so little money writing or editing that I couldn’t blame my parents for assuming they were hobbies.” Nicole Chung on the cost of being a writer. | Esquire

• “I came through the Eighties when book banning was really at its height. And it was terrible.” Judy Blume on the dangers of censorship. | The Independent

Also on Lit Hub: April’s best sci-fi and fantasy books • New poetry by Tim Z. Hernandez • Read from Amy Arnold’s latest novel, Lori & Joe