Lit Hub Daily: January 12, 2022

• “The fictional English food I consumed in literature as a child was so much tastier than the English food I consumed literally.” Nikki May on dreaming of jam tarts in Lagos, and how food bridges cultures. | Lit Hub Food

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• What’s shame got to do with it? Leonard Mlodinow considers how our social emotions laid the foundation for functioning societies. | Lit Hub History

• Jabari Asim talks to Jane Ciabattari about decolonized souls, black love, and writing the past. | Lit Hub

• Christopher Leonard on the hidden fight inside the Federal Reserve that widened the gulf between rich and poor. | Lit Hub Politics

• From Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore to Paris’ Shakespeare and Company, Kerri Maher catalogues the bookstores that comprise her “writing DNA.” | Lit Hub Bookstores & Libraries

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• Celebrate Jack London’s 146th birthday by reading this 1903 review of The Call of the Wild. | Book Marks

• 12 historical mysteries to look forward to in 2022. | CrimeReads

• Poet Thomás Q. Morín discusses literary community, the “sacred bubble” of a writing practice, and taking time to find your voice. | The Creative Independent

• “If I’d have seen [this photograph] on the landscape when I was 15, it would have changed everything for me.” Douglas Stewart and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans on the UK cover of Young Mungo. | The Face

• Writers: If you’re aiming for authenticity in your fictional world, “make sure to remember the chaos.” | Countercraft

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• “What led the principal adversaries in South Africa to seek a negotiated settlement instead of a fight to the finish?” Bongani Kona considers two new books that revisit the fall of Apartheid. | The Baffler

• “In my view, the poetics of translation is an ethos that takes the form of a constraint.” David Larsen on translating poetry. | Poetry Foundation

• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas reflects on Black storytelling and the history of “the role of slavery in children’s books.” | School Library Journal

• Laura Sackton lists books that approach the topic of queer found family in a variety of ways. | Book Riot

Also on Lit Hub: How artists navigate the interplay of authority and freedom • 25 films from Oceania to add to your watch list • Read a story from Gwen E. Kirby’s debut collection, Shit Cassandra Saw