Lit Hub Daily: February 18, 2022

• Amy Kurzweil considers the generations of artists inspired by Maus, and why “one anything” is never enough. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• “This is nothing more than a recent outbreak of an old fever.” When scholars feared that the book index would destroy reading. | Lit Hub History

• Vampire panics: Vidya Krishnan looks at the Victorian science and prejudices behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula. | Lit Hub Health

• When Buster Keaton cast his lot with “the pictures”… and it really, really paid off. | Lit Hub Film

• Robin Kirman recommends novels told from both sides of a couple. | Lit Hub

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• “I sometimes feel like there’s nothing new to write.” How Erik Larson finds new angles on history. | Lit Hub Craft

• Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour, Marlon James’s Moon Witch, Spider King, and James Curtis’ Buster Keaton all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Constance Grady looks to the wider history of book banning in American schools to contextualize the latest wave. | Vox

• In response to old headlines being used to spread misinformation, news organizations are implementing timestamp disclaimers. | Poynter

• “One of my favorite things about Jackson Heights is that it not only is very Latinx, but it is so, so gay.” A guided tour with Edgar Gomez. | Curbed

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• From the sparse to the bloody to the baroque, which Macbeth is right for you? | Los Angeles Times

• “I remember thinking, Oh, I’m not a writer, but maybe I know how to say something.” Min Jin Lee discusses leaving the law to become a novelist, reading the Bible before writing, and being “extra Asian.” | The New Yorker

• Sophie Pinkham considers Yevgenia Belorusets’s work, which tries to “correct for the absence of ordinary eastern Ukrainian perspectives in Ukrainian public life.” | The Baffler

• Alessandro Meregaglia tells the fascinating—and harrowing—story of Toshio Mori, the first Japanese American to publish a work of fiction in the US. | Smithsonian Magazine

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