Lit Hub Daily: January 17, 2023

• The Lying Life of Adults, Dune: Part Two, The Color Purple, and more of the literary film and TV premiering in 2023. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• 18 new books to pick up at your local indie this week. | The Hub

• When Norman Mailer met John F. Kennedy (and JFK probably lied about liking his books). | Lit Hub History

• “I assume that at some point I must’ve told Dan Kois what to do.” Dan Kois’ former bookstore boss, Erica Eisdorfer, interviews him about his new novel and old bookselling days. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• “Hope is one of the most precious drugs doctors have at their disposal.” Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reflects on his own diagnosis. | Lit Hub Health

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• “His dispatches have the impact almost of a serial novel that is being written in installments as the action takes place and before the author knows the ending.” How Hanif Kureishi is communicating with the world after a severe spinal injury. | The New York Times

• An inside look at the community libraries of Korea. | Publishers Weekly

• Fast food and short stories: Aimée Gasston considers the importance of food in Katherine Mansfield’s work. | Public Domain Review

• Xochitl Gonzalez makes the case for modern social climbing. | The Atlantic

• “Acker’s writing reads like a blueprint for an imagined and still unrealized future. What would the world have to be like for Kathy Acker to exist?” Laura Tanenbaum on the unclassifiable Kathy Acker. | The New Republic

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• “I came out of it feeling superior—a better reader of DeLillo than Baumbach.” A. M. Gittlitz on the new film adaptation of White Noise. | LARB

Also on Lit Hub: Kathryn Ma on writing (un)reliable optimistic narrators • Josh Riedel on leaning into marginalia • Read from Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, The Shards