Lit Hub Daily: December 16, 2022

• Just in time for your annual hibernation, we recommend the 13 best literary adaptations of 2022. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• Jess Walter considers the Highsmithian principles of suspense. | Lit Hub Craft

• The best reviewed essay collections and poetry collections of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub

• “Sometimes I think about the fortunate writers who didn’t have to contend with our amplified level of distractions.” Priyanka Kumar on John Steinbeck, Sigrid Undset, and silencing the technology beast. | Lit Hub Tech

• In one of our very favorite Lit Hub traditions, Rabih Alameddine’s recommends the best (short) books he read in 2022. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Nick Riggle on the mysterious beauty of being alive (with wisdom from Ocean Vuong). | Lit Hub Philosophy

• “A literary culture suffers, I think, if it avoids talking about value.” AGNI co-editor William Pierce addresses a fraught subject. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “I think the literary scene today is extremely diverse and exploratory.” Jane Smiley recommends reading widely (and in a hot tub). | New York Times

• A brief history and taxonomy of the literary tote bag… with one notable oversight. | The Walrus 

• “The sheer diversity of the region’s poetry contributed to the festival atmosphere.” Dispatches from SoCal’s “poetry Coachella.” | Los Angeles Times

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• Read new fiction by Oscar Schwartz. | HEAT

• “Shriver spends quite a lot of Abominations defending the freedom of the artist. But it is an open question whether she is really interested in art at all.” Kevin Power on Lionel Shriver’s contrarianism. | Dublin Review of Books

• Naomi Gordon-Loebl considers Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the age of Ron DeSantis. | The Nation

• “While a single book or trip reaches an inevitable end, world literature and circumnavigation are always incomplete projects.” Kevin Riordan on “around-the-world narratives.” | Public Books

Also on Lit Hub: In defense of forgotten classic Random Harvest on its 80th anniversary • Two poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini (tr. Cristina Viti) • Read from Jon Fosse’s newly translated collection, Septology (tr. Damion Searls)