Lit Hub Daily: January 19, 2022

• “A writer has to develop a hide like a rhino.” 20 famous writers on being rejected (literarily, that is). | Lit Hub

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• Voyaging among the stars, while living through lockdown: Susan DeFreitas on her year of reading every Ursula K. Le Guin novel. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “It took me a long time to get to a place where I could even stand the idea of my little 70,000-word drug story. And then I named the main character after myself. Jesus Christ.” David Sanchez on turning to autofiction. | Lit Hub Craft

• When James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry became friends. | Lit Hub

• Janice P. Nimura on what draws biographers to certain lives—in her case, Emily Blackwell, the third woman doctor. | Lit Hub

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• “He lived famously, which is to say that he believed in his talents and vision and saw them as eminently worthy of recognition.” Remembering Eric Priestly, an original member of the Watts Writers Workshop. | Los Angeles Times

• In the new issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Vivian Gornick considers the myths and movement of New York City. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

• Angela Davis and Gina Dent discuss their new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. and what justice without prisons looks like. | Harper’s Bazaar

• The story of Phinney Books, a neighborhood bookstore in Seattle with a unique book subscription program. | The Seattle Times

• “She is inextricable from my sense of becoming not just an artist, but a queer artist, a queer woman.” Melissa Febos on Jeanette Winterson and queer influences. | NYRB

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• Follow Kyle Burk, co-owner of Capitol Hill Books, through his perfect day in D.C. | The Washington Post

• Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman write, is “not just lopsided, it’s incoherent.” | The Point

Also on Lit Hub: 15 new books to read immediately • A poem by Vijay Seshadri • Read from Stephen Harrigan’s latest novel, The Leopard Is Loose