Lit Hub Daily: January 7, 2022
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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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
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“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
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“Tie food to feeling above all else.” Mayukh Sen on writing about what’s for dinner. | Lit Hub Craft
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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
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Nell Zink translates three Stasi records from the 10-year surveillance of her friend, an environmental chemist. | n+1
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“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
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Pour one out for the mysterious book thief—the last source of wonder in this world. | Defector
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“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
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Deidre Lynch praises the “finding aids, search tools, and sorting and storage systems” that have long helped readers find information. | Public Books
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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)
