Lit Hub Daily: July 11, 2023

• C.K. Chau considers the importance of place in Pride and Prejudice: “We, along with the Netherfield players, join the story by moving into it.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• Dwyer Murphy offers a brief, idiosyncratic history of New England Noir through ten modern classics. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Line up for these 27 new books out this week. | The Hub

• Jackie Collins’s daughter describes her mother’s creative process: “In every house we lived in, our mother always had a room of her own.” | Lit Hub

• Tessa Hadley won’t apologize for rereading, and other insights from the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• This month’s Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Nishanth Injam, Kate Myers, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Richard Russo, and Jennifer Vanderbes. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• The Napkin Project, rebooted: Read ten (very) short works of fiction, written on cocktail napkins, by Emily St. John Mandel, Danielle Evans, and more. | Esquire

• “It is no coincidence that Ex-Wife has been forgotten more than once.” Jessica Fletcher on Ursula Parrott’s life and work. | The Baffler

• Take a line-by-line look at the art of translation. | The New York Times

• Stephen King gives advice on division of labor, dealing with in-laws, and librarian burn-out. | Slate

• “Can the kitchen, a space so often associated with the drudgery of domestic labor and exploitation, free us from some of those same constraints?” Adam Federman on Rebecca May Johnson’s quest to free the recipe. | The New Republic

• Was Cormac McCarthy a true “Texas novelist”? Texan writers weigh in. | Austin American-Statesman

Also on Lit Hub: Ruth Madievsky on creating fiction from poetry • Writing about past Hollywood abuses in the midst of #MeToo • Read from Rachel Eliza Griffith’s debut novel, Promise