Lit Hub Daily: April 5, 2022

• Listen to exclusive audio excerpts from Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, Sea of Tranquility. | Lit Hub

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• The case for living like the Little Prince. | Lit Hub

• “What was new was a realization for me that I didn’t have a very good language to defend the value of my life, the worthiness of my life.” Chloé Cooper Jones discusses writing about disability. | Lit Hub

• Recounting the journey of a fugitive conman who sought insight into Alexander the Great through his obsession with lost cities. | Lit Hub History

• “I wanted, simply, for my writing to resurrect.” Chelsea Bieker on grieving her complicated father. | Lit Hub

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• Caits Meissner and Melissa Joskow describe the unique challenge of designing a book by incarcerated writers. | Lit Hub

• Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Melissa Broder, and more rapid-fire book recs from Kaitlyn Greenidge. | Book Marks

• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, a memoir about gender identity, is the most challenged book in the US, according to a new report from the American Library Association. | NPR

• Craig Morgan Teicher remembers Richard Howard, poet, translator, and critic, who died Thursday at 92. | The Paris Review

• “I am really invested in diagnosing and naming power and all the ways that it malforms and obliterates our lives.” Solmaz Sharif on the language of power, resistance, and home. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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• Matt Ortile names 25 must-read books by queer writers. | Esquire

• Laura Miller recommends Mick Herron’s Slough House series, the gobbleable, darkly audacious spy novels behind the new series Slow Horses. | Slate

• Rachel M. Cohen looks at the long history of public school systems making it difficult for teachers to tackle controversial subjects. | The New Republic

Also on Lit Hub: An ode to the French teacher who taught me to inhabit language • A poem by Natalie Rose Richardson • Read from Douglas Stuart’s latest novel, Young Mungo