Lit Hub Daily: February 8, 2023

• “I was meeting a figment of my imagination—what could be more magical?” Ann Napolitano on seeing her book Dear Edward adapted for TV. | Lit Hub TV

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• Boris Dralyuk and Jennifer Croft, two of the best translators in the business—who also happen to be married to each other—talk raising twins and winning awards. | Lit Hub On Translation

• In other literary couple news, Carmela Ciuraru explores the unequal marriage of Kingsley Amis and Jane Howard. | Lit Hub History

• Food as sustenance and political metaphor: How White House dinners shape presidential policy. | Lit Hub Politics

• “Victory City is, in many and the worst ways, classic Rushdie.” Zain Khalid considers Salman Rushdie’s body of work. | The Drift

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• Check out the archives of The East Village Eye, now available at the New York Public Library. | The New Yorker

• In response to the College Board’s cowing to Ron DeSantis and revising its African American studies curriculum, Haymarket will offer free e-books focused on Black history. | The Hill

• “I’m not an Olympic athlete. Literature doesn’t represent anything.” Joshua Hunt profiles Mieko Kawakami. | The New York Times Magazine

• Rapid-fire book recs from Jojo Moyes. | ELLE

• “For me, writing is less about metabolizing raw experience than about getting outside it: reaching some level of analytical remove from which I can really see the limitations of my own point of view.” Read an interview with Maggie Millner. | Poets.org

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• “Pierre Bourdieu’s political commitment to the strike made me see it as my duty as a writer not to remain a passive onlooker in public life.” Annie Ernaux reflects on the 1995 French general strikes (tr. by Lucie Elven). | Le Monde Diplomatique

Also on Lit Hub: On Paul Revere’s ride and what came next • How America came to enthusiastically embrace sushi • Read from Jennifer Savran Kelly’s debut novel, Endpapers