Lit Hub Daily: June 23, 2023

• Gentle wisdom for a postwar era: Lisa Rowe Fraustino considers the context of The Velveteen Rabbit as it turns 100. | Lit Hub History

• Noah Ciubotaru wonders if our praise for TV’s antiheroes has been misplaced (and recommends shows that actually engage with morality). | Lit Hub Criticism

• Winnie Li on the Instragrammable dream of a writing space versus the (freeing, messy) reality. | Lit Hub

• “These are no tales of heroes. They are stories of people facing extreme peril.” How German writers reacted to Hitler’s rise. | Lit Hub History

• Angela Rodel reflects on translating a 20th-century Bulgarian classic: Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem. | Lit Hub On Translation

• Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, K Patrick’s Mrs. S, and Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “I don’t think there was ever any one moment that crystallized my realization of my father’s thing as it were, it is, something I’ve lived with all my life.” An interview with George Orwell’s son. | The Shortlisted

• Every Story Needs a Dungeon, and other lessons writers can learn from The Legend of Zelda. | The Audacity

• Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Annie Abrams about the history of the Advanced Placement test, and the way toward a more equitable future. | Harper’s Bazaar

• Are these the most influential works of postwar queer literature? | T Magazine

• In case you hadn’t realized there is, in fact, a genre called “oceanpunk.” (AKA seapunk.) | Book Riot

• “In a country where you can visit the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, remembering has become its own form of political activity.” Amanda Paige Inman on Nona Fernandez’s book-length essay, Voyager. | The Nation

Also on Lit Hub: Coming of age in central Florida’s orange groves • Jessie Gaynor on finding the “why” • Read a story from Jeffery Renard Allen’s latest collection, Fat Time and Other Stories