Lit Hub Daily: December 14, 2023

• To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. | Lit Hub

• Shaan Sachdev pens an ode to Chandler Bing, “one of sarcasm’s most effective global exporters.” | Lit Hub Film & TV

• What Rachel Zucker is reading now and next, from Mary Ruefle’s The Book to Abigail Thomas’s Safekeeping. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• “I had not understood that giving and taking care, living carefully and caring fully could make me more myself.” Amanda Parrish Morgan on Wintering and the lessons of a long pandemic season. | Lit Hub Memoir

• What will Spotify do to books? | The New York Times

• “You can get away with anything if it’s funny enough.” Ed Park talks to Lincoln Michel about his book Same Bed Different Dreams. | Counter Craft

• So you want to start your own media company: Kelsey McKinney and Aleksander Chan offer some tricks of the trade. | The Nation

• “The Biden books, with striking consistency, evince a pride in how much can be left unsaid.” Jessica Winter reads four Biden memoirs and considers Hunter Biden and the undercurrent of silence. | The New Yorker

• Lauren Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, will open The Lynx bookstore in Gainesville, Florida next year. | Publishers Lunch

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of NYC books that capture the city’s many sides • A poem by Taha Muhammad Ali • Heather Cleary on the pleasures of translating the unfamiliar