Lit Hub Daily: June 27, 2022

• Does anyone want computer-generated art? Can it actually be good? Stephen Marche investigates the possible futures of machine creativity. | Lit Hub Tech

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• “These are the stateless apostates who dared to turn their backs on Lenin and Stalin’s gospel of communist terror, fating themselves to dream of Russia for evermore.” Bryan Karetnyk on the “Unnoticed Generation” of Russian writers in Paris. | Lit Hub History

• How a short-lived Ohio newspaper brought together poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and aviator Orville Wright. | Lit Hub History

• Clare Pooley on the curse of the sophomore novel—or, knowing when to call it quits. | Lit Hub Craft

• How the bizarre story of a kidnapped South Korean filmmaker inspired Ravi Mangla’s debut novel. | Lit Hub Film

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• From trans monks to lesbian orcs to bisexual princesses, a queer fantasy reading list from McKayla Coyle. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Looking to Beowulf and other myths to understand the origins of early medieval England. | Lit Hub History

• “Nobody wants to read therapy.” Abi Morgan on learning how to write a memoir, in real time, during a family crisis. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Joshua Prager recommends ten essential books on the history of abortion and attacks on abortion rights in America. | The New York Times

• A cultural (and personal) history of the abortion story, by Maggie Doherty. | The Yale Review

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• “We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization—of pregnant women, certainly, but also of doctors and pharmacists and clinic staffers, […] of anyone who comes into meaningful contact with a pregnancy that does not end in a healthy birth.” Jia Tolentino on the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade. | The New Yorker

• “The rhetoric that the Nazis used to denounce gay men in the 1930s and 1940s mirrors that coming from the right in the United States today.” Samuel Huneke on the long history of panic over queer “seduction.” | The Baffler

• A list of abortion funds, sorted by state, that you should consider donating to. | The Cut

• Amanda Arnold revisits The Futurist Cookbook, the 1932 cookbook that presaged today’s dystopian eating trends. | Bon Appétit

Also on Lit Hub: Rebecca Rukeyser on sleaze, male rot, and writing a horny novel • Why being humble is good for you • Read from Anne Lardeux’s newly translated debut, The Second Substance (tr. Pablo Strauss)