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Alice Robb on being unproductive at a writing residency: “I left not with the finished chapters I had hoped for, but with the knowledge that writing is—at least for me—a social act.” | Lit Hub
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“It’s starting here.” Inside the emergency room on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic
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The marriage of beauty and science: How Leonardo da Vinci re-centered the human form in art. | Lit Hub Art
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Megan Buskey reflects on her family’s past, “both typical and extraordinary,” in Ukraine. | Lit Hub Ukraine
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Aaron J. Leonard on the political education of Bob Dylan. | Lit Hub Music
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“Like thousands of young women before me, I wrote to Judy Blume because something strange was happening to my body.” On why we still need Judy Blume. | The Atlantic
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Penguin Random House, responding to criticism, will publish “classic” versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels, alongside altered versions. | AP
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More Lord of the Rings movies are in the works at Warner Bros. (Fingers crossed they’re about Tom Bombadil.) | Screen Rant
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A new Toni Morrison exhibition at Princeton “paints a mesmerizing portrait of an author who worked whenever and wherever.” | Vogue
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“When a community pulls itself together and makes a stink, that is where the real work is done. It’s all local, and that’s where the dig is.” How booksellers are responding to book bans. | Publishers Weekly
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Shockingly, Americans don’t actually like the aforementioned book bans. | Business Insider
Also on Lit Hub: The 11 best book covers of February • Thao Thai on sewing and summoning possibility • Read from Astrid Roemer’s newly translated novel, On a Woman’s Madness (trans. by Lucy Scott)
