Lit Hub Daily: March 1, 2022

• “Ukrainians know the price of freedom. They remember the lives and works of their poets.” Myroslav Laiuk on an empire that executed its artists. | Lit Hub

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• Famously fidgety energy: Robert Douglas-Fairhurston Charles Dickens’s elusive, unstable reputation. | Lit Hub Biography

• “You can have a life or you can do some writing, but not both at once.” Margaret Atwood considers the burning questions of the writing life. | Lit Hub

• The Levi’s sold ’round the world… How the Beat generation became fashion icons. | Lit Hub Style

• Why Sarah Moss likes knitting and running (which are, in fact, nothing like writing). | Lit Hub

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• Hairspray’s Harvey Fierstein recounts getting laughs and getting censored throughout a lifetime in talk shows. | Lit Hub TV

• New titles from James S.A. Corey, Kate Folk, and Olivie Blake all feature among March’s best Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. | Book Marks

• Read a new story by Lauren Groff. | Granta

• “He could not show readers that the Charles Dickens they knew from the books was not the real Charles Dickens.” Louis Menard on the crisis that nearly cost Dickens his career. | The New Yorker

• Sheila Heti recommends six books about the power of sex. | The Week

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• Allegra Hyde on the human impulse to find faces everywhere. | Poets & Writers

• Here’s how librarians in Utah are responding to recent book bans in school districts. | The Salt Lake Tribune

• Remembering Leonard Kessler, whose colorful books for children brought joy to kids everywhere. | The New York Times

• Daniel M. Lavery considers the “identification and distance, fascination and aversion, hunger and satiety” of M.F.K. Fisher’s writing. | Lapham’s Quarterly

Also on Lit Hub: How visual art functions in Written on the Wind and Giant • Experiencing kenosis in the poetry of Donne and Shakespeare • Read from Pankaj Mishra’s latest novel, Run and Hide