Lit Hub Daily: February 5, 2020

• “People have characterized the book as a buoyant dystopia, and there’s a certain truth to that.” Gish Jen talks to Mimi Lok about The Resisters, baseball, and taking risks. | Lit Hub
• Ariana Neumann on finding traces of her Jewish family member’s life in Nazi-occupied Bohemia. | Lit Hub History
• Emily Nemens talks to Christian Kiefer about getting to the heart of Recession-era America in a baseball novel. | Lit Hub
• Day two of the Yalta diaries: On the time Churchill quoted Marx to Stalin (75 years ago to this day). | Lit Hub History
• “Noah Baumbach’s couple outsource their inner lives not only to the legal and psychiatric system, but to the fiction of theater.” Masha Tupitsyn on the cynicism of Marriage Story. | Lit Hub Film
• The risk, and reward, of turning from memoir to fiction: Amy Jo Burns drives into the unknown. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Can we know our own faces in a tech-dominated society? Jessica Helfand on digital illusions of identity and self. | Lit Hub Tech
• A Sport and a Pastime, Bluets, Emily of New Moon, and more rapid-fire book recs from Sophie Mackintosh. | Book Marks
• Eighty Academy Award statuettes have been physically stolen since the Oscars’ first ceremony in 1929. Olivia Rutigliano has been tracking them down. | CrimeReads
• Relevant to your interests, literary types: the evolution of the “smart girl” trope in pop culture. | The A.V. Club
• Perhaps unsurprisingly, Amazon is using your Kindle to collect a lot of data about your reading habits. | The Guardian
• Alice Mayhew, the longtime Simon & Schuster editor who worked on dozens of bestsellers including All the President’s Men, has died at 87. | The New York Times
• After meeting with a group of Latinx activists, Macmillan said it would take steps to “substantially increas[e] Latinx representation across Macmillan, including authors, titles, staff and its overall literary ecosystem.” | Los Angeles Times
• The University of Saskatchewan has created an interactive app of The Canterbury Tales manuscript (with a little help from the late Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame). | Global News
• “Something I did learn writing this book is that being impressed by something doesn’t mean you should try and do it.” Miranda Popkey on revision and letting go. | Longreads
• Jami Attenberg lived out all of our collective fantasies and spent the best $1,600 of her life on a custom bookshelf. | The Goods

Also on Lit Hub: On Julian Bond, who unified the language of black and queer civil rights • Read from Michael Zapata’s debut novel, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau • “A Bit of Our Harlem”: A story from Zora Neale Hurston’s collection, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick.