Lit Hub Daily: February 24, 2022

• “Multi-hypenateness for all!” Poet-novelist-playwright Quan Barry wants you to wear many hats. | Lit Hub Craft

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• After living with ALS for 14 years, lifelong reader David Stam offers practical accessibility advice for publishers. | Lit Hub

• “What if a mother could publicly strike?” Amelia Morris on female archetypes, Mean Girls, and wildness. | Lit Hub Parenting

• Robin Kirman considers what literature and psychoanalysis teaches us about disastrous love. | Lit Hub

• Vagina Monologues in the desert: How Eve Ensler shaped the five Wives of Mad Max: Fury Road . | Lit Hub Film

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• What we get out of sad stories, as writers and as readers. | Lit Hub

• Julian Lucas on Yoko Tawada’s wandering eccentrics, Nathaniel Rich on America’s relationship to the bald eagle, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• 25 years later, David Lynch’s Lost Highway has a long and disturbing legacy of real-life crimes and tragedies. | CrimeReads

• In typing Mrs Dalloway from beginning to end, Jo-Ann Wallace became intimately acquainted with Virginia Woolf’s eccentric punctuation. | London Review of Books

• “The land insists that we tell the whole story, riotous and chaotic, beautiful and terrible.” Imani Perry and Virginia Richards explore the American South’s “Inner Passage” in text and photograph. | Smithsonian

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• “How can migrants speak? And what can listening to them reveal about the system of national sovereignty, the persistence of legal exclusion, and the longing for home?” On the necessity of crafting alternative narratives of the global migrant crisis. | Public Books

• ASMR for readers: Watch how a book gets made—specifically, Moon Witch, Spider King—from Marlon James’s office to that sweet, sweet jacket wrapper machine. | The New York Times

• “This book is the most accurate snapshot of who I am that I’ve ever created, and it’s really nice to feel understood.” Heather Havrilesky talks to Sophia Benoit about her new memoir, Foreverland. | Bustle

• Lincoln Michel compiles a syllabus of sci-fi and fantasy works that imagine a world beyond capitalism. | Counter Craft

• “I wanted to add to that tapestry.” Kosoko Jackson talks about writing black queer love. | Shondaland

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Also on Lit Hub: Tanaïs on rejecting western constructs, in writing and in life • 7 books to get over your Olympic hangover • Read from Lola Lafon’s latest novel, Reeling (tr. Hildegard Serle)