Lit Hub Daily: January 26, 2023

• Helen Betya Rubinstein asks if copyediting is worse than meaningless and actually causes harm. | Lit Hub

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• Lauren Fleshman on the problem at the heart of women’s sports culture: “The message to me at 14 was that compliance, coachability, and even beauty might be more important than health and safety.” | Lit Hub Sports

• How silent film icons Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks helped popularize fettuccini alfredo. | Lit Hub Food

• When Georges Lemaître, physicist, mathematician, and Catholic priest, presented a “crackpot” theory: the expansion of the universe. | Lit Hub Science

• Danez Smith on Paul Harding, Scott Bradfield on Chekhov, Ron Charles on Aleksandar Hemon, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

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• Novelist Paul La Farge has died at 52. | The New York Times

• The Dial, an online monthly magazine dedicated to “long-form reporting, criticism and works of literature,” has launched with an issue dedicated to reproductive rights around the world. | The Dial

• Gouda news! The Stinky Cheese Man is aging well. | NPR

• “There was no land in sight that morning or the next. It was overwhelming and terrifying. The world is small, but the planet is vast and unknowable.” Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman document a trip to Antarctica. | AFAR

• “As artists, we have to ask: What stance do we take towards pop culture?” Jack Skelley and Lydia Sviatoslavsky consider language and our collective unconscious. | Uncensored New York

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• Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books, writes Thomas Chatterton Williams, suggests a much larger (and alarming) deficiency of character. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: New poetry from Gabrielle Bates • Read from Delia Cai’s debut novel, Central Places