Lit Hub Daily: December 7, 2021

• A feast for the eyes: Our favorite designers pick the 101 best book covers of 2021. | Lit Hub

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• “Everyone mattered to Vivian.” Ann Marks on Vivian Maier’s earliest New York photographs. | Lit Hub Photography

• For #readAfrica, six historians speak to the historical and contemporary terrain of African literature. | Lit Hub

• “To write about it is to become a vicarious participant in the girl’s victimization and humiliation. I am doing it now, writing about it, and to what purpose?” Siri Hustvedt on the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. | Lit Hub

• Author and showrunner Howard Michael Gould looks back on six underappreciated gems of 80s crime television. | CrimeReads

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• WATCH: Jessica Nordell and Emma Dabiri talk about moving beyond racial bias at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• “I won’t have my daughter taught to fear the lives that help us live our own.” Camille T. Dungy on the beauty of worms. | Guernica

• Here’s how thousands of people have rallied to keep local bookshops alive in the UK. | The Guardian

• An effort to build libraries in barbershops is helping more children read in South Florida. | NBC Miami

• “Human beings are afraid of things they can’t see, things they can’t imagine, things they don’t have any connection with.” Kwame Alexander and other authors of color speak on the efforts to ban books about race. | ABC News

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• Why law enforcement shouldn’t be in libraries. | Book Riot

• Matthew Clark Davison discusses his new novel, form, and class. | BOMB

• How a small Florida city is keeping the memory of Zora Neale Hurston alive. | Atlas Obscura

Also on Lit Hub: Anna Della Subin on Captain Cook’s ill-fated arrival in Hawaii • Lisa Harding recommends out-of-control characters in literary fiction • Read from Juhea Kim’s debut novel, Beasts of a Little Land