Lit Hub Daily: February 16, 2018

• 25 legendary writer feuds, ranked (featuring a whole lot of Hemingway). | Literary Hub
• The importance of teaching poetry in prison. | Literary Hub
• Joyce Carol Oates on dystopia, boxing, and reading problematic classics. | Literary Hub
• Rhiannon Navin: How my mother taught me to be a book fanatic (and how I’m going to pass it on to my kids). | Literary Hub
• A Trump-era satire, a harrowing chronicle of sex addiction, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• “The breakup as social experience isn’t kiss-and-tell so much as a desire not to be alone in facing a story that’s now ended.” Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships. | VQR
• Caitlin Macy on an underrated genre of her childhood: before there was YA, there were horse books | Literary Hub
• Maris Kreizman asked some of our greatest living crime novelists—from Megan Abbott to Attica Locke— to share the novels that thrill them the most. | GQ
• “His manuscript, carefully handwritten in ballpoint pen, arrived in my mailbox 20 years into his sentence, in November of 2015.” Zachary Lazar on art through bars. | Tin House
• Adrienne Miller on what it was like to be the (young, female) literary editor of Esquire in the ‘90s. | Vogue
• From zodiac-themed bars to Philip Pullman, what the Lit Hub staff is up to this weekend. | Literary Hub
• “I felt lucky to have escaped the influence of Big Pharma. . . The only problem was that I was sick and getting sicker.” Rebekah Frumkin on living with bipolar disorder. | Granta
• “We’re getting people who drive down from Memphis who want to see it, people from Oxford. . . they’re all interested.” A queer/feminist bookstore has opened in Water Valley, Mississippi. | Publishers Weekly
• Scott Rudin will transform To Kill a Mockingbird into The Newsroom for Broadway. | Deadline

Also on Literary Hub: My father the criminal: Michael Nye on the story he keeps writing · Of monsters and manuscripts: Sofia Samatar talks to Amina Cain · From Anne Raeff’s new novel, Winter Kept Us Warm