Lit Hub Daily: December 6, 2021

• “Woolf understood that a dystopian future would not look like The Hunger Games or The Road so much as it would the everyday, banal world of Before, shot through now with the dead and their ghosts.” Colin Dickey rereads Mrs. Dalloway during an endless pandemic. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• What happens when you start an indie press with your life partner? Beth Kephart investigates, from Hogarth to Two Dollar Radio. | Lit Hub

• Graphic novelist Philippe Girard talks about drawing the life of Leonard Cohen, that (self-described) beautiful creep. | Lit Hub Comics

• “However you slice it, the history of pasta is tied with a double knot to the history of cheese.” On a culinary match made in heaven. | Lit Hub Food

• “If professionalism means not talking about the ways our health care system is broken, who benefits?” Ruth Madievsky on the necessity of AIDS history to her work as an HIV pharmacist. | Harper’s Bazaar

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• Melanie Broder considers film and literature that resists narrative resolution. | Public Books 

• Christopher Gonzalez discusses flash fiction, the difference between autofiction and creative nonfiction, and dealing with readers’ expectations. | The Rumpus 

• Lili Anolik, author and host of Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College, talks about dark academia and the lasting appeal of Donna Tart. | Bustle

• “It’s seven years’ worth of wrong turns.” Atticus Lish on the long, hard road to his book’s publication. | The Creative Independent

• Bilingual books meant for Pacific Islander native speakers are promoting multilingualism in Hawaii. | Honolulu Civil Beat

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• A look at the current state of Amazon’s bookstore: “immense, full of ads and unvetted reviews, ruled by algorithms and third-party sellers whose identities can be elusive.” | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: Cornel West on revolutionary intellectual Frantz Fanon • Oliver Uberti and James Cheshire on the myth of foundational nationalism • Read from Carla Guelfenbein’s latest novel, One in Me I Never Loved