Lit Hub Daily: February 8, 2022

• “Maybe furtive coupled discontent is the one thing that truly unites us as a species.” Laura Kipnis on love in the time of COVID. | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic

  Article continues after advertisement

• What would life be like today for Jean Rhys’ “women on the margins”? | Lit Hub

• How slavery wound up on the cutting-room floor during the writing of the Declaration of Independence. | Lit Hub History

• I’ll have what she’s having: Rebecca Sack’s rules for writing great sex. | Lit Hub

• Why Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soared to success in the US… only to flop in China. | Lit Hub Film

  Article continues after advertisement

• This month’s 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Gal Beckerman, Karen Cheung, David Wright Faladé, Sara Gran, and Anna Pitoniak. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Merve Emre on the great subject at the heart of Ulysses: love. | The New Yorker

• “Good criticism should establish what is at stake in a book, that there is, in fact, something worth arguing about.” An interview with New Republic literary editor Laura Marsh. | NYRB

• Norman Mailer wasn’t cancelled—but David Klion makes the case that the whole affair embodies several aspects of Cancel Culture discourse. | The Nation

• Lincoln Michel offers some words of wisdom on word counts. | Counter Craft

  Article continues after advertisement

• Siobhan McDonough delves into the takeaways from Northanger Abbey, “no one’s favorite Jane Austen novel.” | Vox

• Critics and authors discuss which great books by Black authors would make the best screen adaptations. | NPR

• Two organizations are sending free copies of challenged books to people in Missouri. | The Hill

Also on Lit Hub: A poem by Carl Phillips • Read a story from Anonymous Sex, edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan