Lit Hub Daily: April 8, 2022

• “To love in a time of war is / to wear earrings in spite of everything.” New poetry from Ukraine by Kateryna Kalytko, translated by Yuliya Ilchuk and Amelia Glaser. | Lit Hub Ukraine

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• Hitting it on the nose: How mystery writers from Arthur Conan Doyle to Louise Penny use perfumes as clues. | Lit Hub

• The ten minutes on television that made Joan Rivers famous. | Lit Hub Humor

• “Live your life, but tend to the work mentally.” Writing advice from Ocean Vuong. | Lit Hub Craft

• Tracing the ancestry of the earliest enslaved Ndongo people, “Anthony and Isabella,” who “carried within them the germinal cells of the first Black child born in America.” | Lit Hub History

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• How digital media impacts America’s deadly cycle of mass shootings. | Lit Hub

• Richard Overy on the last imperial war. | Lit Hub History

• New titles by Douglas Stuart, Jennifer Egan, and Emily St. John Mandel all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “[T]here are two types of science, one for the rich and one for poor people.” M. Chris Fabricant on junk science and poverty. | CrimeReads

• “My relationship to the photography of interiors is wrapped up in what it meant to lose the visual story of a past.” Rebecca Bengal on Harry Crews, the Sears-Roebuck catalog, and the past lives of interior spaces. | SSENSE

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• A glossary of migration, from alien to Zugunruhe. | Lapham’s Quarterly

• “It feels as if Jefferson, looking about and seeing no suitable models, decided to construct her own.” Jasmine Sanders profiles Margo Jefferson. | Vulture

• Lincoln Michel wades into the conflict over whether literature needs conflict. | Counter Craft

• Nylah Burton lists 10 essential books about the writing life. | Bitch Media

• Remembering author David McKee, whose illustrated books were beloved by children. | The Guardian

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• According to a PEN America analysis, more than 1,000 books have been banned in school districts across the US. | CNN

Also on Lit Hub: Slow Horses is worth the slow burn • A poem by Vi Khi Nao • Read from Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s newly translated novel, A Sister’s Story (tr. Ann Goldstein)