Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2021

• What Borges’ science fiction got right about the importance of forgetting, according to child psychiatry. | Lit Hub Science

• MLB All-Star C.C. Sabathia reflects on confronting fame, guilt, and alcoholism from inside baseball’s say-nothing culture. | Lit Hub Sports

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• David Searcy considers how photograph allows us to bring back our dead and prove that we’re alive. | Lit Hub Photography

• “Human superiority is not what we once thought.” Henry Mace plumbs the depths of animal emotions. | Lit Hub Nature

• Heidi Boghosian on the spiral of silence and self-censorship in an era of (real and perceived) government surveillance. | Lit Hub Tech

• Cynthia Cruz recommends working-class literature that helped her understand “the melancholia of class.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• WATCH: At Border Crossings’ Origins Festival, Matthew James Weigel and Liz Howard discuss the historicization of genocide. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• Jack the Ripper wasn’t the only serial killer stalking the city’s vulnerable: Dean Jobb on the prolific Dr. Cream. | CrimeReads

• Steph Cha on Beth Morgan’s A Touch of Jen, Ron Charles on Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• “She is able to recognize what one person is capable of preserving, and so she preserves it.” Lauren Oyler profiles Jenny Erpenbeck. | The New Yorker

• Doree Shafrir talks to Anna Sale about her new memoir and the challenges of IVF. | Death, Sex & Money

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• Anand Giridharadas contemplates the eternal appeal of New York City, the “massive class scam” of philanthropy, and politics. | Walk It Off

• “For me one of the threads of Ghost Forest is the way women’s lives get thwarted.” Pik-Shuen Fung on her multigenerational novel and her visual art training. | BOMB

• This Joy Harjo-collected anthology, featuring 47 poems by Native Nations poets, urges readers to rethink America’s cultural storytelling. | Ploughshares

• Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her plans to “even the playing field” for HBCUs as she prepares to join the faculty at Howard University. | Los Angeles Times

• “The antithesis between humankind’s attempts to corral nature, and our ultimate, if not total, impotence stands as the defining tension of all of Stewart’s work.” On George R. Stewart’s ecofictions. | The Baffler

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Also on Lit Hub: Genevieve Plunkett on friendship, tourism, and equine grief • Lily Meyer on the mind-expanding practice of translating Claudia Ulloa Donoso • Read from Pik-Shuen Fung’s, Ghost Forest