Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2019

• “If you wake up and don’t feel like working, don’t. See a matinee with the other weirdos.” Colson Whitehead on writer’s block, John Carpenter, and Inner Space exploration. | Lit Hub
• How space technology is revolutionizing archaeology: Sarah Parcak on the human story unfolding in satellite imagery. | Lit Hub
• The best of the back of the house: Kevin Alexander recommends six funny, unflinching, and unsparing cooking memoirs. | Lit Hub
• A laid-off journalist takes a job in an Amazon warehouse: Emily Guendelsberger on the high human cost of low-wage work. | Lit Hub
• “You see every damn word and action in this book depends on every other word and action.” What Hemingway cut from For Whom the Bell Tolls. | Lit Hub
• Sarah Weinman investigates the life and work of insatiably curious police-beat-reporter-turned-crime writer Edna Buchanan, who defined an era of Miami—and crime—history. | CrimeReads
• A Girl Goes Into a Forest author Peg Alford Pursell recommends five great books of hybrid forms, from Toni Morrison’s Beloved to Renata Adler’s Speedboat. | Book Marks
• “Every generation is a bridge between something that’s past, and something that’s coming.” An interview with Wendell Berry. | The New Yorker
• You know what goes great with Jenny Erpenbeck? A nice spritz of Balenciaga. Or so indicates this list, which pairs books with perfumes so as to enhance your travel bag. | Interview
• “Walking ought to be among the most democratic of activities. Look closely at the genre, though, and you’ll find that the writer-walker has a way of claiming a surprisingly exclusive status.” On Beneath My Feet: Writers On Walking, and the essential smugness of writers who walk. | The Atlantic
• “We write [these] stories to be cautionary tales, not instruction manuals.” Dystopian fiction writers discuss the dystopian immigration crisis. | The Washington Post
• “She shocks with the truth: it runs like blood through her every sentence.” Deborah Levy on Elizabeth Hardwick’s “hard, glinting, sophisticated, switched-on female intelligence.” | The Paris Review
• Meet Arthur Jacobs, the researcher behind SentiArt, a new machine learning technique for performing “sentiment analyses” in literary texts (Harry Potter, in this case) to help predict human behavior. | Tech Xplore
• A long-running writing program for women at Connecticut’s only female prison has been stalled following disputes between participants and the program director, bestselling author Wally Lamb. | Hartford Courant

Also on Lit Hub: Brazil’s history is ahead of it, not behind: Geovani Martins on finding joy in a beautiful, struggling nation • On a radical model of education: the free school • Read from Courtney Maum’s new novel Costalegre.