Lit Hub Daily: February 7, 2023

• “The future is unpredictable, reminding us that culture is, at best, a broken chain that we keep repairing in every generation.” Martin Puchner on what Oslo’s Future Library means for writers and the written word. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Booksellers from The Strand remember the coolest celebrity “cart shark” of them all: Television frontman Tom Verlaine. | Lit Hub Bookstores & Libraries

• Putting the first non-white man in space: On the DEI initiative at NASA that launched Astronaut Class 8. | Lit Hub Space!

• Mike Lawson on the always bizarre Florida crime fiction tradition. | CrimeReads

• “Fleishman persists among this specific group of women who are both well off and strung out.” Caitlin Moscatello considers the influence of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel and adaptation. | The Cut

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• Rachel León on the convergence of astrology and writing. | Catapult

• “Writing is just a bunch of decisions you have to make. Back to the Kierkegaard: Do it or don’t.” Percival Everett on craft and endings. | LARB

• Read a newly resurfaced poem by the late Mark Strand. | The New Yorker

• Elisa Gabbert takes a tour of poetic beginnings. | The New York Times

• “Even if he has adopted the manners and customs of the elite, he refuses to adopt their indifference.” Tara K. Menon considers Édouard Louis’s chronicles of class. | The Nation

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• “Gandhi’s notion of nonpossession did not extend to books.” Jenny Bhatt interviews Gujarati literary scholar and translator Tridip Suhrud. | Words Without Borders

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