Lit Hub Daily: February 3, 2022

• “I read slowly, allowing its gorgeous language, vivid descriptions and sensory atmospheres to sink in.” Bernardine Evaristo on the pleasures (and lessons) of rereading Toni Morrison. | Lit Hub Craft
• What can a dead Egyptian pharaoh teach us about the modern world? Christina Riggs on the women behind King Tutankhamun. | Lit Hub History
• Julia May Jonas on how reading plays helped her write her novel. | Lit Hub
• Dan Saladino bravely pursues the mysterious origins of the world’s oldest commercial beer. | Lit Hub Food
• Zadie Smith on Toni Morrison’s only short story, Bill McKibben on the original Bambi, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• A look at the brand new Jack Reacher series, from Lee Child’s biographer, Heather Martin. | CrimeReads
• WATCH: On Keen On, Sebastian Mallaby talks about Silicon Valley’s role in the economy, Jacob Ward warns against the dangers of AI, and John E. Douglas gets into the mind of a serial killer. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Network
• Read a story by Denne Michele Norris at American Short Fiction, one of four chosen this Black History month by guest editor Danielle Evans. | American Short Fiction
• “Estés laid the groundwork for the empowerment feminism that proliferates today, creating a fertile muck for girl bosses and SHE-E-Os to thrive.” Megan Reynolds on Women Who Run with the Wolves at 30. | Gawker
• James Joyce’s grandson has donated a major collection of the author’s documents—including a telegram from Samuel Beckett—to the University of Reading. | The Guardian
• Read the inaugural issue of The Continental Literary Magazine, a quarterly literary review that aims to create a platform for contemporary Central European writers in the North American literary market. | The Continental
• Weike Wang explores her personal history of (over)work. | The New Yorker
• “They are subjective, human endeavors that go around masquerading as independent, objective truths.” Carmen Faye Mathes considers the act of discovery. | Public Books
• “The possibility of a more just future is at stake when book bans deny young people access to knowledge of the past.” Marilisa Jiménez Garcia on recent book bans and teaching history. | The Atlantic
• “For [James] Joyce, the completion of Ulysses was an ever-moving target.” Philip Keel Geheber looks back at the development of a classic. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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