Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2022

• “I started to think of the book itself as a kind of eyeball.” Jon Raymond on the artistic inspirations behind his new novel, Denial. | Lit Hub 13 Ways of Looking

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• Jerome Charyn on finding literary inspiration at the movie theater, from Bambi to L’Avventura. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• On vaccine apartheid, “the 24-hour hum of Amazon’s warehouses,” and other brutal manifestations of Big Pharma and Big Tech colluding. | Lit Hub Tech

• Cate Holahan on finding community among writers in a dystopia. | CrimeReads

• “If writers make mistakes, explore mistakes, celebrate mistakes, and embrace lives that are mistakes, they also can use mistakes.” Ed Simon parses typos and misprints. (Or, an ode to copyeditors.) | The Millions

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• “Inopportuneness in all its manifestations—bad timing, rotten luck, missed connections—is the dominant theme of Italo Svevo’s life, work, and afterlife.” Nathaniel Rich discusses one of Italy’s greatest authors. | NYRB

• “Maybe we should all just stop writing and just fight climate change.” Leyna Krow on blending historical fiction with magical realism. | The Rumpus

• Autumn Fourkiller recommends books that revolve around Indigenous voices and rebirth. | Longreads

• Heather Hansman lists seven books with settings that reveal a character’s growth over time. | The Atlantic

• “The criticism underscores the fact that decades after its publication, A People’s History still matters, and it is still sparking debate in history classrooms.” Remembering Howard Zinn at 100. | The Nation

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• Arimeta Diop offers a brief history of the Trumpworld tell-all. | Vanity Fair

Also on Lit Hub: What Nina Mingya Powles is reading now and next • Keith Corbin on the patterns, routines, and pervasive fear of daily life in prison • Read from Beata Umybyeyi Mairesse’s newly translated novel, All Your Children, Scattered (tr. Alison Anderson)