Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2020

• Vivian Gornick and the revolution that won’t end: John Freeman profiles the author of Unfinished Business. | Lit Hub
• “What are we to do with the art of profoundly compromised men?” Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller’s memoir of life with literary men, including David Foster Wallace.  | Lit Hub
• “It was only when I started to see my own people on the pages before me that I discovered the true power of words.” Douglas Stuart’s favorite working-class Scottish literature. | Lit Hub
• Jenn Shapland reads Maggie Nelson, and considers the objects that make love visible. | Lit Hub
• “Stories shaped our minds, our societies, and our interaction with the environment.” Gaia Vince considers the adaptive urgency of storytelling. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• “At the death of your child, you see how the edge of the living world gives onto burning whiteness.” Denise Riley on the temporal dislocation of profound loss. | Lit Hub Memoir
• From Miriam Toews’ Women Talking to Tara Westover’s Educated, ten booksellers rave about their favorite reads. | Book Marks
• “As a black child growing up in the South, I needed my books to create a world in which I wished to dwell. I needed my books to dangle a promise that would keep me reading. I needed Christopher Paul Curtis.” Varian Johnson on finally finding joy in historical fiction during Black History Month. | The New York Times
• “What’s that old lady doing there? And why does she have mush?” Best-selling children’s book author Sandra Boynon on Goodnight Moon, Ted Danson, and (not) the hippopotamus. | The Wall Street Journal
• The music video for the new track by the rock band The Used, “Paradise Lost, a poem by John Milton,” adds a psychedelic spin to the classic poem. | Rock Cellar Magazine
• If the tradition of “literary heroism” has largely died off in the writings of the Arab world, what does its next literary renaissance look like? | Middle East Eye
• Here’s a good reason to get your hands on a copy of British Vogue: Bernardine Evaristo has a new fantasy short story in the March issue. | Brittle Paper
• Greta Gerwig’s approach to Little Women “evokes the influential history of American women’s mass cultural production and reception.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Wondering how to support prison book projects? Here’s where to start. | Electric Literature

Also on Lit Hub: Nuns can party, too: Alena Dillon on defying expectations of piety in the holy orders • How Robert Frost ended up at JFK’s inauguration • Read an excerpt from Ben Okri’s new novel The Freedom Artist.