Lit Hub Daily: January 31, 2022

• “The author of true crime books has to perform a large degree of outrage about the thing that they’re writing about.” John Darnielle opens up about the origins of his latest novel, Devil House. | Lit Hub
• How Antarctic explorers kept themselves sane on long, cold voyages: Ranulph Fiennes on the life and times of Ernest Shackleton. | Lit Hub Biography
• Screens… aren’t great for deep reading. | Lit Hub Tech
• “Felix Salten had no idea his name would gradually become detached, if not erased, from Bambi.” Jack Zines on the sad, Disneyfication of a classic. | Lit Hub Film and TV
• In a Gazan home in California, two writers share a taste of home: having a meal with Jehad al-Saftawi and Lara Aburamadan. | Lit Hub Food
• Children’s books that soothe, inspire, and transform: J.M. Farkas recommends Shinsuke Yoshitake, Mariahadesssa Ekere Tallie, and more. | Lit Hub
• The month in literary listening: AudioFile’s best audiobooks of January. | Book Marks
• WATCH: On Keen On, Patricia Roberts-Miller looks at the objective ways we measure racism, and Geoffrey Wheatcroft examines the cultural and political legacy of Winston Churchill. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
• “Was MacDowell’s space key to how I could write the book? Indisputably yes. Could I have foretold the final form of the book beforehand? Not at all.” Casey Plett considers the burden of “relevance” in artists residencies. | MacDowell
• Read two vignettes (of the undead) by Nell Zink. | n+1
• Andy Hunter discusses the mission and future of Bookshop.org on its second anniversary. | Publishing Perspectives
• Has Goodreads turned reading into a “bizarre literary Miss Universe pageant”? | The Cut
• People who want to censor books in schools need to pay more attention to how students actually read, ninth grader Sriya Tallapragada writes. | The Dallas Morning News
• These moms of color are fighting book bans in their kids’ schools in Texas. | NBC News
• Morgan Thomas talks about how genderqueer history influenced their debut fiction collection. | Autostraddle

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