Lit Hub Daily: August 12, 2021

• “Ladies,” or shipmates in skirts? Siân Evans on the daring Victorian women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles. | Lit Hub History

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• “What we wanted were wide open spaces… room to make mistakes… new faces. What we got was Windhoek.” Rémy Ngamije reflects on the immigrant’s dream of movement. | Lit Hub Memoir

• From the archives to the cornfields, and the gaps in between: Rachel Pastan considers what it takes to fictionalize a life. | Lit Hub Craft

• James Rebanks contemplates the surprising history of farming and the changing hands of familial ownership. | Lit Hub Nature

• Elly Fishman describes earning the trust of her teenage subjects while reporting for her book, Refugee High. | Lit Hub

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• WATCH: Nana Nkweti in conversation with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma • Lizzie Johnson on California’s deadly Camp Fire. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• “The real ‘secrets’ you can use are the obvious ones: work hard, don’t give up, learn your shit, do good work.” Lincoln Michel offers professional writing advice. | Counter Craft

• Anna Qu discusses her memoir, the global reach of stereotypes, work, and trauma. | Bomb

• Twelve authors answer the question “how do you write in tough times?” | Tor

• The story of how Andrew Cuomo’s book turned into “a publisher’s worst nightmare.” | The New York Times

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• “I feel very raw. … I couldn’t hear myself anymore.” Rita Dove on finding space to write and the process behind her new collection. | Guernica

• Lori Toppel considers the necessary delusions of the writing life. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

• A great (un)equalizer: How higher education exaggerates class and cultural divisions. | Public Books

Also on Lit Hub: How Christa Päffgen became Nico • Jane Healey on how we make narratives out of predatory relationships • Read from Dolly Alderton’s latest novel, Ghosts