Lit Hub Daily: April 7, 2022

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TODAY: In 1907, Violette LeDuc, author of L’Asphyxie (In the Prison of Her Skin), is born. 

Also on Lit Hub: Reframing the legacy of 70s screenwriter Carole Eastman • How (and why) did cultural tastes for spicy food develop? • Read from Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry



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