Lit Hub Daily: February 28, 2023

• Willard Spiegelman on pinning down the biography of poet Amy Clampitt, a Patron Saint of Late Bloomers. | Lit Hub Biography

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• 11 new books to fill those longer daylight hours. | The Hub

• When reanimating corpses was all the rage: Sally Adee recounts the early days of bioelectricity. | Lit Hub Science

• Carlo Rovelli on how the scientific method came to be. | Lit Hub History

• Cyndie Spiegel muses on the transformative nature of “microjoys.” | Lit Hub

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• The month in literary listening: AudioFile’s best audiobooks of February. | Book Marks

• Alma Katsu and Kathleen Kent talk historical fiction, spy novels, and their careers in national security and intelligence. | CrimeReads

• “The war takes everything from us, but one of the first things it takes is our time, our productive years, the period that we refer to as ‘the prime of life.’” Andriy Lyubka on war and coffee in the new issue of HEAT. | HEAT

• “How to write about the environmental fallout of an ongoing, active shooting war?” Five Ukrainian writers on the immediate and long-term ecological damage of a war that has no end in sight. | Emergence Magazine

• Josh Hendrickson recommends six of the best “reported memoirs.” | The Atlantic

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• “Daunt decided not to lay off any booksellers, whom he viewed as the company’s most precious resource.” Is James Daunt’s rethinking of Barnes & Noble… working? | Fast Company

• Pratchett-heads, assemble: 20 rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories will be published this year. | The Guardian

• Katherine May, the author of Wintering and Enchantment, has some advice for feeling alive again. | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: Donal Ryan on mourning an unpublishable novel • A conversation with Heinz Insu Fenkl • Read from Priya Guns’s debut novel, Your Driver is Waiting