Lit Hub Daily: February 15, 2022

• Heather O’Neill considers girlhood, Jean Genet’s The Maids, and the feminine urge to murder. | Lit Hub

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• The life-changing magic of tomato pie: Kim Fay recalls reading and eating her way through Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking. | Lit Hub Food

• “We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.” The case for Civil War revisionism in film and literature. | Lit Hub History

• “It is a touch of heaven, this music.” Garrett Hongo’s search for the perfect sound. | Lit Hub Music

• Approaching the unspeakable through the diminutive: a 1986 review of Art Spiegelman’s Maus. | Book Marks

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• Jack Hanson on Sheila Heti’s world of “characters who never existed in the world, who seem to struggle even to exist on the page, so merged as they are with the author’s consciousness as it seeks its own foundations.” | The Baffler

• Sharmila Mukherjee delves into Mayukh Sen’s project to recover the stories of “women omitted from the American culinary canon.” | LARB

• Heather Havrilesky recommends some of her recent favorite reads. | The Week

• “I’ve become cannon fodder in a culture war.” Art Spiegelman talks about his abrupt return to the public eye (and losing his glasses). | Vulture

• Young, Black Brazilian writers are shaking up the country’s literary scene. | New York Times

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• “Maybe they just ran out of pages.” The Great Gatsby’s entry into the public domain has led to an influx of low-quality editions. | The Guardian

• Christian Lorentzen considers the crime novels of Jean-Patrick Manchette. | CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN’S NEWSLETTER

Also on Lit Hub: A poem by Paul Tran • Read from Sheila Heti’s latest novel, Pure Colour