Lit Hub Daily: December 14, 2021

• “Wonder and humility, said Carson, ‘do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.’” Sandra Steingraber revisits Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy in a time of climate crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change

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• Commodifying atrocity: Hasanthika Sirisena considers the shadow cast by “dark tourism.” | Lit Hub

• “I savored the title. The Spanish surname. The promise that these girls would share the secret of how they undid a part of themselves.” Elizabeth Acevedo on Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Mike Gonzalez remembers Greg Tate—writer, musician, and “the maker of movements.” | Lit Hub

• Tom Bissell, the author of Creative Types, talks about Hollywood, adaptation, and feeling like an “actual writer.” | Lit Hub

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• Julian Lucas considers the promise of “distraction-free” writing technology. | The New Yorker 

• “We were all kind of deranged in 2020. The fiction coming out of that year will probably be a little deranged, too.” Emily St. John Mandel on writing a pandemic, and writing in a pandemic. | Esquire

• Here are seven new voices in English translation to read now. | Words Without Borders

• The publishing world is finally embracing Black cookbooks. | Eater

• “I think all of us are exhausted by anthropocentrism.” Meghan O’Gieblyn on her new book, the origins of the brain-computer metaphor, and transhumanism. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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• Nicholas Russell pens a celebration of writing by hand. | Gawker

• The Los Angeles Review of Books celebrates its tenth birthday. | Los Angeles Times

Also on Lit Hub: The best books of 2021 you may have missed • Why the lack of closure after loss doesn’t have to be devastating • Read from Nadifa Mohamed’s latest novel, The Fortune