Lit Hub Daily: February 22, 2022

• Jane Pek considers Pride and Prejudice, the gay marriage movement, and the choice to marry. | Lit Hub

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• Baby steps: Ben Okri reflects on how writing a children’s book is an antidote to doomsday thinking. | Lit Hub

• “It is a place to learn about the naked self.” Daniel Genis on reading his way through his prison sentence. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Julie Otsuka talks to Jane Ciabattari about the story behind her latest novel, The Swimmers. | Lit Hub

• “I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I do believe in archives.” Isaac Fellman on the delight and desolation of archival research. | Lit Hub

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• On the secret lives on sandhoppers, “the fizz of life itself.” | Lit Hub Nature

• Dan Nadel considers the cartoon context of Maus. | Artforum

• “How can poetry call attention to creative forms of survival and persistence, human and nonhuman?” Margaret Ronda on art that imagines through catastrophe. | Public Books

• “Take me or leave me or, as is the usual order of things, both.” Read the Divorce Issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

• Patricia Lockwood talks to Deborah Treisman about writing across forms, humor as hand-me-down, and Internetspeak. | The New Yorker

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• Christopher Buckley on the works of P.J. O’Rourke, “a fellow of infinite jest.” | The New York Times

• Two Missouri students are suing their school district after Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye was pulled from the library. | TIME

• Writer and human rights lawyer Flynn Coleman describes how words function as “technologies of power.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: On the not-so-unlikely friendship between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr. • Aisling Walsh on making sense of her mom’s Terminator fandom • Read from Sasha Fletcher’s debut novel, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World