Lit Hub Daily: December 23, 2021

• Francine Prose on Jim McPherson, writers on their day jobs, the science of black holes, and more great writing published at Lit Hub dot com.

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• “If the authentic test for a great novel is rereading, then Pride and Prejudice can rival any novel ever written.” The late Harold Bloom on the delights of Jane Austen’s beloved classic. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Jill Stoner on flying reindeer, swimming caribou, and the artificiality of borders in a world full of migrations. | Lit Hub

• Wallis Wilde-Menozzi recounts “trying to put silence into words” as she completed her book during the outbreak of Covid-19. | Lit Hub

• 9 spine-tingling true crime relics sold in 2021. | CrimeReads

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• Nikita Lalwani on the craft of eavesdropping (it’s not rude if you’re doing it for Art!). | Lit Hub Craft

• “He has nostalgia in its original form, as a sickness.” Patricia Lockwood on Karl Ove Knausgaard. | London Review of Books

• Dana Canedy considers the sorrow and joy of seeing the story of her greatest love adapted into a film. | The New York Times

• O Thiam Chin remembers seeing himself in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story as a queer teenager in Singapore. | Granta

• Amy Brady speaks to the founders of Flourish Fiction, “a platform for fictional stories about climate change that are optimistic, and solutions-oriented.” | Burning Worlds

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Also on Lit Hub: The 8 best book covers of December • Finding Morocco in books and films • Read from Claire Messud’s latest novel, A Dream Life