Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2022

• Benjamin Percy on when plants attack! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• “The United States is sleepwalking to its end.” Stephen Marche on the decay of American political discourse. | Lit Hub Politics

• Silvia Vasquez-Lavado confronts the “very manly, very white, mostly balding” old boys’ club at Everest Base Camp. | Lit Hub Travel

• “Aw, partners, it’s been a bitch.” Read Ken Kesey’s letter to friends after the death of his brother. | Lit Hub

• Danielle J. Lindemann traces the boomeranging evolution of reality TV, from the quiet Real World: London to Wife Swap and back again. | Lit Hub TV

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• On Africatown’s fight to honor the survivors of the Clotilda. | Lit Hub History

• Molly Odintz recommends the best thirst traps in crime fiction. | CrimeReads

• “How on earth do you judge books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon talk about the story behind literary awards, on Fiction/Non/Fiction. | Lit Hub Radio

• Merve Emre on lust in Ulysses, Frank Guan on Chuck Klosterman’s ode to the 90s, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• “No matter how many times I reread Sula, analyze her names, untangle her threads, the light of her slips through my fingers.” Namwali Serpell on her favorite Toni Morrison novel. | The Paris Review

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• Revisiting the work of Donald Goines, Detroit’s crime writer par excellence. | JSTOR Daily

• “One of the most striking things about reading Blood Meridian now is that it anticipates some of the major historical turns of the past decades.” Bennett Parten on Cormac McCarthy and American history. | LARB

• Emily Henry, Casey McQuiston, and more romance writers share how they think about chemistry. | Vox

• “Despite parental outbursts, teens are going to continue … to get their mitts on whatever their parents don’t want them to read, see or discuss.” Jessica Grose discusses recent book bans and parental control. | The New York Times

• “We are fighting for our survival.” Literary magazine editors speak about the current state of the industry. | CNN

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• “It’s come out, I think, at exactly the right moment.” Jane Goodall discusses her recent book on environmental issues. | Los Angeles Times

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