Lit Hub Daily: February 13, 2023

• “I’ve been baffled by why my esteemed colleagues are so incurious about the place on the internet where readers are buying a metric fuckton of books.” Leigh Stein enumerates the undersung joys of BookTok. | Lit Hub

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• Ann Beattie wonders what Donald Barthelme would have made of the Spy Balloon. | Lit Hub

• How Huey P. Newton became an American revolutionary. | Lit Hub Politics

• Ten horror movies about black-white race relations not named Get Out… that enjoyed varying degrees of success. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Why Harlem? Bo McMillan considers the site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 years later. | Lit Hub History

• Exciting updates from the HarperCollins picket line: a tentative deal is being made. | NPR

• “Is technology our collective fairy godmother?” Jennifer Wilson considers dating apps as plot device in contemporary fiction. | The New York Times

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• Maggie Neal Doherty on a forgotten climate history classic that Patagonia (!) is bringing back to life. | Los Angeles Times

• Chris Lehmann considers Pamela Paul’s latest op-ed, “What Liberals Can Learn from Ron DeSantis”—“a case study in the managerial incoherence of the disengaged liberal mind.” | The Nation

• Karen Russell talks to Adrienne Westenfeld about writing for the stage, mythological retellings, and hopeful speculative fiction. | Esquire

• Authors and publishers discuss the necessity of the newly announced Women’s prize for nonfiction. | The Guardian 

Also on Lit Hub: Five surreal works of fiction you probably haven’t read • Nona Fernández on constellations of memories • Read from Fiona McFarlane’s latest novel, The Sun Walks Down