Lit Hub Daily: July 12, 2023

• And you think you’re exhausted: Why North American’s black bears have stopped hibernating. | Lit Hub Nature

• “They do not swallow their words.” Yasmine El Rashidi on hip-hop’s role in powering Egypt’s ongoing revolution. | Lit Hub Music

• How Lauren Bacall secured her legendary love story with Humphrey Bogart—and flattened their lives in the process. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Urban heat feels crueler and more intimate than the heat you feel in nature.” Jeff Goodell on the perils of life in a hot city. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Carnal desire in a convoluted context: Andrew Lipstein recommends five books that capture high finance culture. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “Whereas some people have a passion for sex, my mentor has a passion for otters.” Read a new work of flash fiction from Patrick Cottrell, from the latest issue of BOMB. | BOMB

• “‘It looks really overwhelming in there,’ she says, peering into the crowd.” A chaotic 48 hours with Colleen Hoover. | TIME

• “I’m for every single artist getting to call their work their own.” Nicole Flattery discusses her new novel, Nothing Special. | Staff Picks

• “You climbed into the warm mouth of the earth and paid your respects.” Kapka Kassabova on the “old baths” in the Mesta river and the healing powers of water. | The Dial

• Rachel Gutman-Wei considers the decline of penmanship. | The Atlantic

• Jonathan Taylor looks back at the early years of Reading Rainbow. | LA Times

Also on Lit Hub: On loving and fictionalizing Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Andrew Ridker on writing about the recent past • Read from Maud Ventura’s newly translated novel, My Husband (tr. Emma Ramadan)