Lit Hub Daily: August 22, 2022

• “Maybe we failed. But I believe the thing was worth attempting.” Marguerite Duras on writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais’ 1959 film, Hiroshima Mon Amour. | Lit Hub Film

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• “He was an all-the-time poet. It was a very nice pace.” Eileen Myles remembers their friend Bobby Byrd. | Lit Hub Poetry

• Mutated crabs and zombie fish: How an unlucky Texas fisherman stumbled upon an environmental catastrophe. | Lit Hub Nature

• Mike Rothschild considers how the madness of QAnon seeped into everyday life. | Lit Hub Politics

• Kristine Langley Mahler on “the essayist’s destiny in the era of Google”—or, how to be a creep for art! | Lit Hub

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• To mark the prize’s tenth year, the British Academy has produced a free short anthology featuring contributions from seven previous winners and shortlisted writers. | The British Academy

• As the DOJ v. PRH case wraps up, what did we learn? | The New York Times

• “History, for Sorokin, is clay he manipulates into art, that he manipulates again and again. And again.” Arya Roshanian on the incendiary novels of Vladimir Sorokin. | Gawker

• Michelle Zauner recommends a few of her favorite books. | Elle

• Alyson McCabe considers the contradictions of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith. | NPR

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• “The power of these ballads of social unrest lies in their ability to transform individual tragedies into subtle yet clear indictments of unjust systems.” Brian Brodeur considers the midcentury ballad. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Robert Rubsam recommends the best books that explore various dimensions of obsession. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: Interview with an indie press: And Other Stories • Alexa T. Dodd recounts five years with a predatory vanity press • Read from Akil Kumarasamy’s new novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea