Lit Hub Daily: August 22, 2023

• “You weren’t even allowed to the paddock, where they show the horses. So I took a book. I mean, what would you do?” On Leonora Carrington’s days as a debutante. | Lit Hub Biography

• 22 new books to brighten up your week. | The Hub

• “Every Black student had a story.” Laura Meckler considers the failed racial promise of Shaker Heights, the so-called “American dream town.” | Lit Hub

• Gender in journalism: Meet the female journalist who helped create the field of science reporting. | Lit Hub History

• When it comes to scientific discovery, meandering is key. | Lit Hub Science

• Anna May Wong and Chinatown Noir: Yunte Huang looks at four quintessential films. | CrimeReads

• Alas, poor Yorick! Does it suddenly seem like grown-up theater kids are running everything? Here’s why. | The New York Times

• The Atlantic has the story on tens of thousands of pirated books being used to train major generative-AI programs, including works by Stephen King, Zadie Smith, Michael Pollan, and Junot Díaz. | The Atlantic

• “What was designed, back in the ’70s, as a Louis Kahn-ish, brutalist utopia for tennis playing, lap swimming, sauna sitting Jewish swingers, has begun to show signs of serious entropy.” Jeremy Sigler recounts a crappy run-in at his parents’ retirement condo. | Tablet

• Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn gentrification and Jervis Anderson’s 1977 New Yorker piece that captured it. | The New Yorker 

Also on Lit Hub: Edgar Kunz on making ends meet as a poet • Daniel Johnson on writing about his friend, James Foley • Read from Robert Coover’s latest novel, Open House