Lit Hub Daily: January 23, 2023

• Kirsty Gunn revisits the brilliance and influence of Katherine Mansfield, a modernist’s modernist. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• “I was doing a bit of a Caro: trying to take the time I needed to get to the truth of the story I was trying to tell.” Lizzie Gottlieb on documenting the remarkable partnership between her father and Robert Caro. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Jamila Minnicks on writing fiction about Black triumph: “What harms us remains with us but does not define us.” | Lit Hub

• In the latest installment of When I’m Not Writing, Mina Seçkin muses on playing Pokémon and traversing the Kanto universe. | Lit Hub

• Take a look inside the Hobart Book Village in upstate NY. | The New York Times

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• Here are the longlists for this year’s PEN America Literary Awards. | PEN America

• Sarah Weinman considers Truman Capote’s complicated relationship with the truth. | The Atlantic

• “The women of Women Talking are determined to look ahead, not only to the immediate future but farther, both literally and figuratively, down the road.” Eliza Smith on Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel. | The Cut

• Revisiting Edna Ferber’s “deft, affectionate” novel The Girls. | JSTOR Daily

• “My parents wished so fervently for luck in the New Year. For good health, of course, but especially for money.” Lan Samantha Chang on her evolving relationship to the Lunar New Year. | Harper’s Bazaar

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Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of strong, spirited Southern ladies • Alan Mikhail on gaining permission to narrate Egypt’s past • Read from Martin Riker’s latest novel, The Guest Lecture