Lit Hub Daily: February 7, 2022

• $150,000 for a piece of Mars: Greg Brennecka explores the strange world of the meteorite trade. | Lit Hub Space!

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• Lauren Groff ruminates on Yūko Tsushima’s Woman Running in the Mountains, which “tracks one insignificant person’s defiance in the face of the overwhelming darkness of the world.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• “The greatest beneficiary of calls for civility has been not the progressive left but the reactionary right.” Alex Zamalin against civility in politics (and toward tools that actually work). | Lit Hub Politics

• Our years of magical thinking: Mary-Frances O’Connor on the neuroscience of grief. | Lit Hub Science

• How genre is transforming our idea of the “Sundance film” from Little Miss Sunshine to Get Out and Nanny. | Lit Hub Film

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• Alex Sujong Laughlin talks to the creators and stars of the new adaptation of Pachinko, which confronts Japan’s colonization of Korea. | Harper’s Bazaar

• “Lem was incommensurable—to SF, to literature, to himself. He was so many different writers—five, at least.” Jonathan Lethem on his year of Stanisław Lem. | London Review of Books

• “The beef is painted as Woolf painted everything, in search of its inner truth.” Valerie Stivers cooks boeuf en daube in the style of Virginia Woolf. | The Paris Review

• Ed Simon makes the case for Puritan poetry. | The Millions

• Who is Filippo Bernardini, the man accused of impersonating literary figures in order to obtain unpublished manuscripts? | Vulture

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• Khaty Xiong, Victoria Chang, and Prageeta Sharma discuss the role of grief in writing poetry. | Poetry Foundation

• Remembering Jason Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, who died Friday at the age of 93. | NPR

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