Lit Hub Daily: February 22, 2023

• In actually good nature news, certain populations of whales are rebounding. What can we learn from their recoveries? | Lit Hub Nature

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• A blob for every era: The cultural history of slime, from H.P. Lovecraft to Ghostbusters. | Lit Hub History

• What happens when we’re more like our satirized characters than we’d care to admit? Colin Winnette has some thoughts. | Lit Hub Tech

• Emmanuel Iduma examines the enduring divides created by the Nigerian Civil War. | Lit Hub Politics

• Rebecca Ackermann considers how “the Sex and the City Problem” functions in Detransition, Baby and Fleishman Is in Trouble. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Christian Lorentzen takes a close look at the Simon & Schuster trial. | Harper’s

• An update on the HarperCollins Union: the three-month strike was a success. | The New York Times

• “Life may be nasty, brutish, and short; it’s also sublime. The strongest writing about death and dying captures both the trifling and the profound.” Eleanor Cummins on the literature of death. | The Atlantic

• An ode to the shared experience created by audiobooks. | NPR

• Katy Waldman on Rebecca Makkai’s new novel and our shared obsession with true crime. | The New Yorker

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• “The world is hardly a better place than it was then, but I think it’s possible that I am a better person now than the person who wrote this novel was.” Gary Indiana revisits his 2003 novel, Do Everything in the Dark. | The Paris Review

Also on Lit Hub: Erica Berry on fairytales, fear, and dismantling narratives • A poem by Alice Notley • Read from Mirza Waheed’s latest novel, Tell Her Everything