Lit Hub Daily: April 4, 2022

TODAY: Marguerite Duras is born in 1914.  

• Announcing the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction: Read winning stories by Olga Tokarczuk, Daniel Mason, and Alejandro Zambra. | Lit Hub

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• “It’s the smallest thing, having one friend live one house over. But it is shocking how much that small thing helps.” Zan Romanoff on utopia, community, and togetherness in 2022. | Lit Hub

• What does it look like to meet climate panic with hope? | Lit Hub Climate Change

• “I hear a voice stored somewhere in my mind, telling me not to look back.” Pacifique Irankunda on growing up amid civil war. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Spin it one more time: Patricia Mulcahy recounts the challenges (and pleasures) of helping Quincy Jones tell his life story. | Lit Hub Music

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• On the new golden age of African fashion, in which designers are responding to “a continent-wide demand—for cultural reappropriation and the invention of a language exclusive to Africa.” | Lit Hub Style

• Graham Greene, Mary Kay Andrews, Women Who Run With Wolves, and more rapid-fire book recs from Patti Callahan. | Book Marks

• “Horrible news is inevitable; Didion manages to douse it in elegance.” Ana Quiring on the popularity of Joan Didion and what it shows about us. | LARB

• Javaid Siddiqi discusses the reasons that book bans are particularly detrimental to marginalized students. | The Hill

• “If I get really excited, I’ll maybe wear a tan.” What Pachinko author Min Jin Lee wears to work. | The Cut

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• Emily St. John Mandel discusses self-doubt, Station Eleven, and her newest novel, Sea of Tranquility. | The New Yorker

• Constance Grady talks to Benjamín Labatut about the limitations of science and his approach to writing. | Vox

• “To make an identity is to reject paths, from moment to moment, as they’re offered to you.” Ross Showalter on queerness, shame, and Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film, Persona. | Bright Wall/Dark Room

• Nicholas Russell considers the new wave of “internet gothic fiction.” | Gawker

Also on Lit Hub: An introduction to Southeast Asian speculative fiction • Candice Wuehle on books that remember (and resist) the 1990s • Read from Grant Grinder’s latest novel, Let’s Not Do That Again

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