Lit Hub Daily: April 5, 2023

TODAY: In 2005, Saul Bellow dies at 89.

• “Am I procrastinating or am I doing research?” Curtis Sittenfeld gives a glimpse into her writing process. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

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• Sarah Blakewell makes the case for pursuing humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope. | Lit Hub Philosophy

• The field of literary translation is more visible than ever. What does that mean for translators? | Lit Hub On Translation

• “She is her art, inside and out.” Will Gompertz on the life and work of iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. | Lit Hub Art

• Matthew Vollmer shares his “Portrait of an Artist” workshop model, which leaves participants with possibilities rather than an autopsy. | Lit Hub Teaching

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• Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder talk wonder, the secular sacred, and the surprising power of “once upon a time.” | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Women dominate book publishing, so why are they still underrepresented in other creative industries? | Planet Money

• The debate over posthumous editing continues. | The New York Times

• How Deborah Levy is transcending the literary. | The Guardian

• Have sparsely attended book events always been an authorial rite of passage, or are things getting worse? | The Hub

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• Alison Bechdel revisits her eponymous cinematic test and finds it not always the best measure of a movie’s feminist bona fides. | NPR

• Is “fan fiction a distillation of the impulse behind all art”? Eustace Tilley dips his august toe into the wine-dark sea of one of the most popular literary genres in the world. | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: John West on the art of the experimental memoir • Nicole Chung on writing through grief • Read from Susanna Moore’s latest novel, The Lost Wife

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