Lit Hub Daily: July 19, 2023

• Colson Whitehead talks Blaxploitation cinema, Sidney Lumet, and the latest installment of his Harlem trilogy. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Earning their “person” pronouns: Animals don’t know what we call them, but language affects how we think about them. | Lit Hub Nature

• Exploring the “colorful and gruesome backstory” of C-sections. | Lit Hub Health

• Lillian Stone reflects on her complicated relationship with her Ozark roots: “I felt those menacing multitudes brewing deep in my pseudo-hillbilly heart, and I was terrified.” | Lit Hub Memoir

• Amanda Chemeche conversation with Alex Auder. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• “What does CVS stand for? No one seems to know. Everything you might want to buy there is now locked up, and you have to press what feels like a panic button to get access.” Rachel Kushner on the designed world. | Harper’s

• Simen Sætre considers the salmon barons populating Norwegian literature (translated by Siân Mackie). | The Dial

• Surprise! Ta-Nehisi Coates showed up at a school board meeting in South Carolina over banning his book. | The Daily Beast

• Colson Whitehead answers the Proust Questionnaire. | Vanity Fair

• “Anything you create that transcends time is in some ways more real than the actual reality of your life.” David Marchese interviews Joyce Carol Oates. | The New York Times Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: Why expertise has lost its luster • New poetry from Terrance Hayes • Read from Hila Blum’s newly translated novel, How to Love Your Daughter (tr. Daniella Zamir)