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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
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When Norman Mailer met John F. Kennedy (and JFK probably lied about liking his books). | Lit Hub History
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“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
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“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
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An inside look at the community libraries of Korea. | Publishers Weekly
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Fast food and short stories: Aimée Gasston considers the importance of food in Katherine Mansfield’s work. | Public Domain Review
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Xochitl Gonzalez makes the case for modern social climbing. | The Atlantic
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“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
