Lit Hub Daily: August 30, 2022

TODAY: In 2006, Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 94.  

• Which big fall book should you pluck from the masses? Fret not—there’s a flowchart for that. | Lit Hub

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• “Once in awhile, something explodes, but August is August.” Myroslav Laiuk on life in Kyiv, August 2022. | Lit Hub Ukraine

• A warm welcome to these 11 new books hitting shelves today. | The Hub

• “I’ve been trying to figure out why I think my niceness is presumed—does it have to do with the fact that I’m Asian? A woman?” Mia Mercado on the anxieties of performing “niceness.” | Lit Hub Memoir

• The democratization of everything: On Robinhood, bitcoin, and the promise of fairness. | Lit Hub Politics

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• Jonathan Russell Clark considers where George Miller failed (and excelled) in adapting A.S. Byatt in Three Thousand Years of Longing. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Against Draculas and Humbert Humberts: Juniper Fitzgerald on unlearning the gothic narratives that shaped her prepubescent sexuality. | Lit Hub Memoir

• CrimeReads editor-in-chief Dwyer Murphy recommends the best crime shows coming out in September. | CrimeReads

• A dive into the escapist worlds of Maurice Sendak. | The New York Times

• Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch recommends her favorite books. | Far Out Magazine

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• What makes a romance novel a hit with Gen Z? Deanna Schwartz and Meghan Collins Sullivan report. | NPR

• A look at the procedures that Utah schools are using to ban books. | Axios

• What makes Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice so divisive? Jim Ruland investigates. | Alta

• “Is it art if it makes everyone mad? Not necessarily, but in this case yes.” Keith Gessen on Turgenev’s Fathers and Children. | The New Yorker

• Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood talk all things evil. | Interview

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Also on Lit Hub: How to write a book without getting in your own way • From surfboards to seed corn, how society creates trends • Read from James Hannaham’s latest novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

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