Lit Hub Daily: January 24, 2023

• How Edith Wharton foresaw the 21st century: “The scandals documented in Wharton’s narratives serve as harbingers of the sensations that flash across our hand-held screens.” | Lit Hub Biography

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• Peggy Orenstein delves into the endangered, male-dominated vocation of… sheep-shearing. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Inside the picture perfect—and highly lucrative—world of book styling. | Lit Hub

• Timmy got eaten by a lion: Tim DeRoche makes the case for Gothic nonsense in children’s literature. | Lit Hub

• 48 books recommended by the boygenius group (AKA Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker). | The Hub

• Peter C. Baker considers the appeal of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, a book that offers no easy lessons. | The New Yorker

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• A literary guide to Shirley Jackson’s life and work. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

• “To honor someone, write about them in a complicated way.” Bushra Rehman on preserving immigrant communities in writing. | The Rumpus

• Marion Meade—the biographer of Dorothy Parker—has died at 88. | The New York Times

• In the face of book bans and attacks on women’s and LGBTQ rights, feminist bookstores are having a resurgence. | Ms.

• “I meet the same words each time I open Ædnan, but as Ædnan’s reader, I am never the same. I started thinking of the book as a river.” Saskia Vogel on rereading and translation. | Words Without Borders

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Also on Lit Hub: 19 new books to get at your local indie • Aleksandar Hemon takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire • Read from Hanna Pylväinen’s latest novel, The End of Drum Time