Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2019

TODAY: In 1880, American novelist and newspaper columnist Kathleen Norris, one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States from 1911 to 1959, is born.

“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