Lit Hub Daily: January 7, 2022

• Viking Skarsgård, a big-budget adaptation of Pachinko, the return to Middle Earth, and more literary film and TV to stream this year. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• Cell phone, folding keyboard, headphones, hoodie—welcome to Antoine Wilson’s (distraction-free!) office. | Lit Hub

• “The rise of running represented a dramatic shift in the way women viewed their bodies—and their own potential.” On the dramatic origins of women’s elite running. | Lit Hub Sports

• “Tie food to feeling above all else.” Mayukh Sen on writing about what’s for dinner. | Lit Hub Craft

• How a generation of (pre-internet) women got their gossip. | Lit Hub History

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• Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane, Mark Bowden & Matthew Teague’s The Steal, and Alessandro Barbero’s Dante: A Life all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Nell Zink translates three Stasi records from the 10-year surveillance of her friend, an environmental chemist. | n+1

• “Everybody knows Rosa Parks, but who are the people standing with her?” An interview with the woman on a mission to archive 125 years’ worth of Baltimore’s Black history. | Atlas Obscura

• Pour one out for the mysterious book thief—the last source of wonder in this world. | Defector

• “Parents and patrons,” not students, are the drivers of proposed book bans in schools, the American Library Association reports. | NBC News

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• These books cover the funny, strange, fascinating details of musical subcultures. | The Guardian

• Deidre Lynch praises the “finding aids, search tools, and sorting and storage systems” that have long helped readers find information. | Public Books

• Xochitl Gonzalez discusses balancing humor with darkness, writing about money, and the transition from novel to screenplay. | The Common

Also on Lit Hub: On the history of George V and the demands of the suffragettes • Interview with an indie press: Europa Editions • Read from Grégoire Courtois’ newly translated novel, The Agents (tr. Rhonda Mullins)