Lit Hub Daily: July 19, 2021

• “I arrive now at the end of this journey with a finished film that I’ll happily admit cannot do justice to the well from which it’s drawn.” David Lowery on adapting The Green Knight from a poem that resists adaptation. | Lit Hub Film

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• Protective fragrances and plebian scents: Sarah Everts presents a brief history of perfume. | Lit Hub History

• In a quest to get better at talking to strangers, Joe Keohane finds the perfect setting: a cross-country train. | Lit Hub

• “How did all those people feel when the phone rang and the voice from the other side asked to speak to someone who was no longer there?” Miljenko Jergović considers the visible erasure of Croatian Jews. | Lit Hub History

• Books for understanding the Bronx, featuring E.L. Doctorow, Lilliam Rivera, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Corruption in the attorney general’s office: Elie Honig the “feigned ignorance” of William Barr. | Lit Hub Politics

• “The assaults have seen the population of Gaza reimagined by Israeli military planners as blades of grass and the Israeli military as a lawnmower—a post-modern incarnation of Steinbeck’s tractor.” Max Blumental on occupation and art in Gaza. | The Markaz Review

• On the big business of literary adaptations for television. | The Atlantic

• “After we’re done worrying, we must change the way we buy books.” On the alarming implications of Amazon’s ever-growing share of the bookselling market. | Medium

• Dine like Jane Austen with these recipes from her sister-in-law’s cookbook. | Atlas Obscura

• Anuk Arudpragasam on his work, influences, and process. | The Paris Review

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• Tiffany McDaniel considers the books that have made an impact on her life. | Entertainment Weekly

• “With women, their loneliness is often portrayed in a makeover romcom kind of way.” Kristen Radtke on loneliness, her research process, and the difference between skepticism and distrust. | Shondaland

• “Once you get sober, you meet a million details demanding to be stored.” Elissa Washuta grapples with telling the story of her sobriety. | Harper’s Bazaar

Also on Lit Hub: How Oscar Wilde won over the American press • Carole Hooven on the role of hormones in human speech • Read from Antonio Muñoz Molina’s newly translated novel, To Walk Alone in a Crowd (tr. Guillermo Bleichmar)