Lit Hub Daily: February 27, 2019

• It doesn’t rot your brain if it’s literary! A ranking of the 50 greatest literary TV adaptations, ever. | Lit Hub
• “Almost everything in Bangkok eventually becomes smoke.” On the astronomical cost of clean air in Bangkok. | Lit Hub
• “I need my freedom. I need it now.” Why is Guantánamo Diary’s author being denied a passport more than two years after his release? | Lit Hub
• “With parity comes a freedom to choose our own narrative”: Melissa Chadburn challenges traditional approaches to reporting. | Lit Hub
• This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Becca Rothfeld on hypochondriac protagonists and ferocious women in fiction. | Book Marks
• Bird Box’s Josh Malerman on being a prolific writer, his casket full of rough drafts, and the challenges of crime writing, interviewed by Max Booth III. | CrimeReads
• “The tension between Seuss and Seuss-free classrooms is emblematic of a bigger debate playing out across the country.” On Dr. Seuss and the question of problematic classic books. | NPR
• Writers and activists including Margaret Atwood, Gloria Steinem, and Arundhati Roy have co-signed an open letter calling for Afghan women’s voices to be included in US peace talks with the Taliban. | The Guardian
• “Don’t stir—it’s not a bowl of sangria. Scrub, scrub, scrub.” Jen Beagin has some cleaning tips for us all. | O
• How the life of Spanish memoirist, short story writer, and actress Felicidad Blanc became an allegory for Spain after Francisco Franco. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• On the changing face of post-Soviet immigrant literature in the US. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “I have to see it in my mind’s eye as a scene or I can’t write it.” Read an interview with Natasha Tretheway. | Guernica
• “‘Noli timere,’ it ended. ‘Be not afraid.’” On the lessons of Seamus Heaney’s final text message. | Fast Company

Also on Lit Hub: On Reading Women, Katya Apekina talks being a writer, not a vampire • Claudio Magris’ darkly humorous travels • On the reading series that’s a “literary social practice” • Read from Leading Men