Lit Hub Daily: December 1, 2021

• 21 writers on their favorite movies to watch during the holidays, from Carol to The Departed. | Lit Hub Film

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• “Getting unstuck meant I had to think like a puppeteer, to yield control.” Liz Weiss on the intertwining of her writing life and her puppet life. | Lit Hub

• Sara B. Franklin shares the books that have helped her and her children, throughout the pandemic, “sink into this reality rather than shy from it.” | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic

• Peek into the little-known archives that are keeping stories of Civil Rights activists alive. | Lit Hub History

• “There are no new stories, only new ways of telling them.” Meg Waite Clayton talks about her new novel, The Postmistress of Paris. | Lit Hub

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• Kirthana Ramisetti on adapting to a new work routine during the pandemic… by watching British reality TV. | Lit Hub TV

• Anna Karenina, Dubliners, A Room of One’s Own, and more rapid-fire book recs from Mikhal Dekel. | Book Marks

• Crystal Hana Kim considers how research can lead to richer narrative fiction. | Catapult

• Isaac Fitzgerald in conversation with Min Jin Lee at the Met. | Walk It Off

• “They presumed they knew better than I did who I was and how I should think and behave.” Ariella Aïsha Azoulay on language and belonging. | Boston Review

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• Tobias Carroll looks at the convergence of writing and skateboarding. | Inside Hook 

• “His work continually reminds you that playfulness can be most essential when the subject is deadly serious.” Adrienne Raphel on Stephen Sondheim’s foundational wordplay. | The Paris Review

Also on Lit Hub: What to read this month, based on your astrology sign • An interview with poet Tongo Eisen-Martin • Read from Kasimma’s story collection, All Shades of Iberibe