Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2022

• “If taking risks on early-career writers, passionately cultivating their careers, and a deep connection to our readers makes us a farm team, I guess I’ll wear that as a badge of honor.” Margot Atwell on what the PRH trial revealed about indie publishers. | Lit Hub

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• Brandon Shimoda reflects on reading stories of Japanese American incarceration to his young daughter. | Lit Hub History

• “Headley’s use of the word “extinct” jarred me out of the Old English poem into the here and now of a 21st-century-dumpster-fire-always-batshit-insane-world.” What a new Beowulf translation says about extinction. | Lit Hub

• Emma Kantor in praise of publishing screwball comedies, “a more noble vision of the industry.” | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Every person has to come to terms with the gap between what they believe and how they live their lives.” Courtney Martin on the many ways of asking the school question. | Lit Hub Politics

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• “Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.” Here are the 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

• “Empathy to me is morally neutral.” Namwali Serpell discusses her literary journey and her new novel, The Furrows. | Poets & Writers

• Novelist Cecile Pineda has died at 89. | The Washington Post

• “The banning of books is not a figurative matter in contemporary America. It’s not like the censorship of another time, place, or regime; it’s the censorship we actually have.” Aaron R. Hanlon on the false equivalency between the attack on Salman Rushdie and “cancel culture.” | The New Republic

• Lisa Bubert recommends a few writer profiles you need to read right now: “Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat.” | Longreads

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• Wil Haygood has been awarded the prestigious Daytona Literary Peace Prize for lifetime achievement. | NPR

• A school district in Texas has temporarily restricted access to books that received complaints, “including the Bible and an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary.” | CNN

• Ali Millar shares books about starting over in life. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Sadie Jones on writing about childhood • A poem by Nina Mingya Powles • Read from Shola Von Reinhold’s debut novel, Lote