Lit Hub Daily: February 17, 2023

TODAY: Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer and translator best known for his novel The Blind Owl, is born.  

• Beyond traditional workshop: Rachel May and Krys Malcolm Belc offer a chapbook-oriented reading list for literary innovation. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• A century of Weird Tales: Some of the best fantasy and horror stories you can read online from “the magazine that never dies.” | Lit Hub

• What Courtney Maum is reading now and next, from You Can’t Stay Here Forever to Adam’s Task. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• “Does it have to hurt the reader for them to get it? Must they really be in my shoes?” Camonghne Felix on writing about trauma. | Lit Hub Craft

• Four poets describe how cinema influences their work. | Lit Hub Poetry

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• Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, Sonora Jha’s The Laughter, and Fiona McFarlane’s The Sun Walks Down all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• On Winnie-the-Pooh entering the public domain, copyright law, and why that new horror film that will probably ruin your childhood is actually a win for creative freedom. | The Walrus

• Audiobook narrators have raised concerns over Apple using their voices to train AI. | WIRED

• Okechukwu Nzelu considers Beyoncé’s latest album: “Far from being grasping or appropriative, Renaissance gives back, by reminding Black queer people what it’s like to be in our most sacred spaces.” | Granta

• “I want to enjoy a novel and at the same time learn everything about eel fishing or asbestos removal or typewriter repair.” Rebecca Makkai on what she’s been reading (and what she wants to be reading). | The New York Times

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• “There is always a chance that the line of communication may be disrupted.” Jess Abolafia sheds light on the precarious process of corresponding across prison walls. | PEN America

• What’s the most expensive book ever sold? Apparently, it’s an ancient Hebrew Bible. | HuffPost

Also on Lit Hub: New poetry by José Olivarez • Essential books about World War II women • Read from Alejandro Zambra’s newly translated novel, The Private Lives of Trees (tr. Megan McDowell) 

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