Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2022

• “We need to rid ourselves of this arrogance, of the primitiveness of the authoritarian systems.” A conversation with Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. | Lit Hub Politics

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• A George Saunders adaptation, Jeff Bridges’ return to TV, and a queer spin on Pride and Prejudice all feature among the Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in June. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Women who write have a picture of who they want to be in the future—one that would be shattered by an unwanted pregnancy.” Rosa Campbell on what an archive of testimonials tells us about abortion before Roe. | Lit Hub Politics

• Jessie Stephens recommends ten books about love, loss, and everything in between. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• How to christen a heartthrob: Seth Kaufman reveals the (borrowed) origins of his protagonist’s name. | Lit Hub Music

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• “Will today manage to become a memory?” Notes on memory and forgetting from Tedi López Mills. | Lit Hub

• Sarah Sentilles offers prompts for writing about people you know. | Lit Hub Craft

• How 19th-century gun-makers helped preserve the Union. | Lit Hub History

• Barry Lopez’s Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer, and David Sedaris’ Happy-Go-Lucky all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• A careful consideration of the forensic sciences in mystery’s most enduring novels: Agatha Christie’s. | CrimeReads

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• Keith Gessen talks to Mark Athitakis about fatherhood, dad-focused literature, and writing about parenting. | Los Angeles Times

• A benefit sale for English PEN includes some unique first editions with annotations by famous authors. | The Guardian

• “Reading is always an act of trust. Whenever we read anything, from a novel to the label on a prescription bottle, trust is involved.” Rhian Sasseen talks to Hernan Diaz about his new novel. | The Paris Review

• Walter Abish, who wrote experimental fiction about modern Germany, has died at 90. | The New York Times

• How Moms for Liberty is fear-mongering about CRT and “pornographic novels” to help conservatives win midterm elections. | The New Republic 

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• “The poems shine a light on what’s behind Wilma, the activist.” Frances McCue on finding the lost poems of Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller. | Indian Country Today

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