Lit Hub Daily: January 13, 2023

TODAY: In 1898. novelist Emile Zola’s “J’accuse,” a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason, was published in the Paris newspaper L’Aurore.

• “Professional relationships as close and supportive as that between Caro and Gottlieb have always been rare, in book publishing as everywhere else, and accessible to only a few.” Michelle Nijhuis on Turn Every Page, the new film about writer-editor duo Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “As quickly as mother-artists find ways to turn parenthood into something generative, of course, the system finds ways to delegitimize or challenge the value of that work.” Janet Manley on making space for mother-artists. | Lit Hub

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• Laura Zigman’s Small World, Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures, Leigh Bardugo’s Hell Bent, and Paul Auster’s Bloodbath Nation all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “Heisey is making a career out of guiding characters through the kinds of crises we can laugh at and sympathize with.” Bethanne Patrick talks to Schitt’s Creek writer Monica Heisey about her turn to fiction. | Los Angeles Times

• Lily Meyer examines the staying power of a satirical 1883 pamphlet about labor: “Culturally, many Americans still adhere to what Lafargue called the ‘dogma of work.’” | The Atlantic

• “I write to preserve our language because it is one way that we can really connect our past to our present.” An interview with Jamila Minnicks. | PEN America

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• David Owens examines his grammatical pet peeves. | The New Yorker 

• “His choice of the more beautiful and more readable traditional typefaces was a ‘confrontational posture.’” On William Morris’ anti-capitalist publishing practices. | JSTOR Daily

• “There are few reporters you’d rather see on the other side—the wrong end—of a Q&A.” Max Abelson considers Janet Malcolm’s interviews. | n+1

• Rebecca Solnit makes the case for telling new stories of the climate crisis, “stories that motivate people to do what it takes to make the world we need.” |  The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Toni Morrison on breathing life into clichés • The birth of the reproductive justice movement • Read from Laura Zigman’s latest novel, Small World

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