Lit Hub Daily: December 3, 2021

• The Literary Film and TV You Should Stream in December features a Cumberbatch Western, Station Eleven, the great Olivia Colman as an Elena Ferrante character, and more. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• “Here was another ‘sole time in my life’: the sole time an obituary had brought me to tears.” A eulogy for the visionary Charles Bowden. | Lit Hub

• Hisham Matar revisits Joseph Conrad’s story “Amy Foster,” simultaneously the “working out of a nightmare” and “praise for the uncertainty of things.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• Samantha Allen makes a literary case for slasher films… and draws a direct line to the horror of competitive reality TV. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “He has always liked poetry on the page; now he’s discovering what it can do on a stage.” On the origins of the poetry collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Plus, three new poems from Jacob Sam-La Rose, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, and Peter Kahn. | Lit Hub Poetry

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• Ventriloquist and chameleon: Lydia Davis on how translation opens a writer’s mind. | Lit Hub Craft

• Mel Brooks’ All About Me!, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, and James Hannaham’s Pilot Imposter all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Dean Jobb on Marthe Hanau, the greatest con artist in Parisian history. | CrimeReads

• “I love my son, and I am not at peace with the sacrifice I was required to make.” Merritt Tierce on the abortion she didn’t have. | The New York Times Magazine

• On Daniel Borzutzky’s poetry, which conveys, with dark humor, “the grotesquery and relentlessness of violence in the world.” | AGNI

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• How to apply acting techniques to help open up exploratory writing. | Catapult

• Ariel Henley discusses her memoir and what it’s like to grow up with Croutzon Syndrome. | Bitch Media

• “While the world tries to emerge from the darkness of pandemic, we face questions about how to reassemble ourselves across the gash.” Stacy Mattingly considers Balkan literature and living in aftermath. | Guernica

• Rachel Toor shares her experience developing connections with book editors. | The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Alexis Clements breaks down the fracture “between artists and the institutions that commission, exhibit, produce, and/or distribute their work.” | LARB

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Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter Emerald Fennell • Poetry by JoAnna Novak • Read from Judith Mccormack’s latest novel, The Singing Forest