Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2023

• Not that we really need *more* dystopia at the moment, but here are seven great novels at the intersection of dystopia and mystery. (Dystopery?) | Lit Hub

• Exploring the complex world of animal infancy. | Lit Hub Nature

• Speaking of baby animals, Frieda Hughes recounts the early, slow days of raising a magpie. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “Sherwood had an extraordinary career ahead of him, but the greatest tragedy is that he didn’t get to take a risk and fall flat on his face.” Paul Morton considers the brief career of Bill Sherwood, the queer director of Parting Glances who died four years after his debut. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• What Henry Hoke is reading now and next, from Biography of X to A Horse at Night. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• Queens authors Daphne Palasi Andreades, Bushra Rehman, and Christine Kandic Torres discuss the importance of centering marginalized voices in the New York novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• “You’ll fall under the spell of a forlorn voice trapped in the hellscape of modern America.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Hannah Steinkopf-Frank explores the queer publications of the Weimar Republic. | JSTOR Daily

• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is expanding to California. | LA Times

• New York’s prison system has reversed a policy that would have blocked incarcerated writers and artists from publishing their work and receiving compensation. | Yahoo

• For those of you not on Twitter (good for you!), here’s why an Anne Carson poem from 2017 went viral this week. | The Hub

• “Love is the thing I believe I’m trying to touch, walk us around, in my poems. Love in various expressions.” Charif Shanahan and Morgan Parker in conversation. | The Paris Review

• Ralph Dulti details Osip Mandelstam’s life and work in exile. | Verso

Also on Lit Hub: Peter Constantine on the joys of translation • A reading list of motherhood and adoption • Read from Owlish