Lit Hub Daily: January 19, 2023

• The spies in our pockets: Rachel Maddow considers how cell phone spyware threatens privacy—and democracy. | Lit Hub Tech

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• Nicklas Brendborg explores the lives of animals with impressive lifespans, from the Greenland shark to the lobster. | Lit Hub Nature

• In this week’s Life Advice for Book Lovers, Dorothea recommends reads for finding joy in retirement. | Lit Hub

• Freeman’s contributors share their most anticipated books of 2023. | Lit Hub

• “For all its porno doominess, it often elicits little more than a mild wow.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

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• “I have decided I like the way I look and I’m the expert. Who has spent more time looking at me than I have?” Laura Lippman on turning 60 and learning to trust her body. | Oldster

• Rapid-fire book recs from Isaac Mizrahi. | ELLE

• “What I want is to reach toward what visual artists, or dancers, or performers do, but through language, through sentences.” Amina Cain on art and authenticity. | The Millions

• “I think aspiring writers need to realize that your dream first book might not be what you actually publish.” An interview with Debutiful creator Adam Vitcavage. | Electric Lit

• Travel writer and novelist Jonathan Raban has died at 80. | The Guardian

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• “As the new film makes clear, Hurston’s work as an anthropologist was at least as important as her literary output.” Chris Vognar on PBS’s Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. | Los Angeles Times

• “Mitigating actions can be deployed, but the commitment to writing has to remain unwavering.” Clémence Michallon talks to writers who, like Prince Harry, wrote unsparing memoirs about their families. | Independent

Also on Lit Hub: Marisa Crane on the finer points of experimental fiction • Michelle Bowdler on the power of sharing trauma narratives • Read from Kai Thomas’s debut novel, In the Upper Country