Lit Hub Daily: February 25, 2019

• According to science, you’re probably worrying about the wrong things (so put your fears of an asteroid attack aside and commence freaking out about sugar). | Lit Hub
• “He gave us a vocabulary for thinking about the ways pictures and words can work together in harmony.” What Scott McCloud taught us about internet storytelling. | Lit Hub
• “When black women say ‘I,’ it holds a very different meaning.” On the black women who wrote America’s earliest autofiction. | Lit Hub
• “This cover is a map of emotion.” The writer and designer of The Yellow House discuss the process of creating its cover. | Lit Hub
• On the still-unsolved WWII-era murder mystery of the woman called “Bella,” basis for the latest novel by Tana French. | CrimeReads
• “From the distant and great ­unknown, Maya Angelou’s unwavering voice continues to guide us well.” Read a newly re-discovered interview with Maya Angelou, introduced by Edwidge Danticat. | Playboy
• “It must be said: This book is a dog.” A ranking of the memoirs of every major 2020 presidential candidate. | EW
• Please enjoy this weird website that generates short stories about phone numbers. | Electric Literature
• “It would be hard to know which of the many books I have not heard of is the best—after all, I haven’t heard of them—but it would probably not be Stoner, which has the interesting distinction of being, despite all this recent advocacy, not very good at all.” On the curious recent revival of John Williams. | The Baffler
• From Charles Dickens to the Bible to suffragette lit: how to read like Frederick Douglass. | Lapham’s Quarterly
• Meet Julie Beck and Lauren Billings, the author duo who went from writing Twilight fan-fiction to penning New York Times bestselling romance novels. | The Atlantic
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Friday Black’s path to publication. | The Mantle

Also on Lit Hub: On But That’s Another Story, Evan Ratliff talks finding the right story • Uncovering the truth about a raid on the Black Panthers • The forgotten internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii • Read from The Body Myth