Lit Hub Daily: January 18, 2022

• “Begin with verse, if you have any taste for it. Any really gloomy stuff that you admire will do.” Kingsley Amis’s instructions for coping with hangovers, both physical and metaphysical. | Lit Hub Humor

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• A moment’s peace from Miyazaki: Anri Wheeler on watching My Neighbor Totoro on the eve of her daughters’ Omicron-surge return to school. | Lit Hub

• “FAMOUS ARTIST DIES PENNILESS AND ALL ALONE.” On the man who quietly built a massive archive of artists’ deaths. | Lit Hub

• Jeffrey C. Stewart considers the genesis of Alain Locke’s transformative “New Negro aesthetic.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• “The show is obsessed with adaptation, the way that people (many of them actors) reuse and project upon a source.” Katy Waldman explores the post-apocalyptic art of Station Eleven. | The New Yorker

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• Sarah Brouillette considers the series Maid, and “the progress narrative of moving from underemployed gig worker to indebted investor in one’s own human capital via university education and creative labor.” | Verso

• Read a profile of poet, novelist, and Björk collaborator Sjón. | The New York Times Magazine

• “Taking words at face value is what good rappers almost militantly don’t do.” Daniel Levin Becker on the rhyme and rhetoric of rap. | The Paris Review

• Eat, drink, and read at these cool new bookstore-bars. | Eater

• Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez reflects on recent book bans in the state. | Texas Observer

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• These books about burnout are essential reading for 2022. | Chicago Tribune

Also on Lit Hub: The blurry boundaries of sibling intimacy: a reading list • Michael Brooks on the surprising sophistication of “finger-counting” • Read from Weike Wang’s latest novel, Joan Is Okay