Lit Hub Daily: February 6, 2023

• “Will this book, like so many cultural products made by creatives of color, be expected to somehow prove the viability of Black novels in the marketplace?” Debut author Laura Warrell on publishing while Black. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Rapid-fire reviews of the literary adaptations that premiered at Sundance, from the dazzling (Eileen) to the disappointing (Cat Person). | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Kwame Dawes reflects on the legacy of rhetorician and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who took on “the very political premise of America.” | Lit Hub History

• “We probably had 10,000 books in our apartment at any given time. Stacks and stacks, shelves and shelves of them.” Priscilla Gilman, author of The Critic’s Daughter, discusses her singular literary upbringing. | Lit Hub In Conversation

  “I asked how his spirits were. ‘Well, you know, I’ve been better,’ he said dryly.” David Remnick talks to Salman Rushdie. | The New Yorker

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• “Anderson makes her life read like a fairy tale—the dark, gritty kind in which still, at the center of it all, there is a princess searching.” Roxane Gay considers Pamela Anderson’s memoir and documentary. | The Cut

• Alex Ross explores the life and legacy of Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century nun, mystic, and composer. | The New Yorker

• Chels Upton dives into the (many) Colleen Hoover backlashes. | Slate

• Six books that will change how you look at art. | The Atlantic 

• “Many White people watch programs like The 1619 Project, and see only a story about White people. That leads to another tragic misunderstanding of why this curriculum is so good for America.” Brian Broome considers Hannah Nikole-Jones’s new docuseries. | The Washington Post

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Also on Lit Hub: On the radical potential of epistolary poetry • A poem by Dana Gioia • Read from Charmaine Craig’s latest novel, My Nemesis