Lit Hub Daily: March 1, 2023

• How a young Karl Lagerfeld discovered a love of literature. | Lit Hub Biography

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• Christie Tate mourns the dear friend who taught her “how one life can alter another.” | Lit Hub

• In the first of a new series, The Booker Revisited, Lucy Scholes considers Francis King’s The Nick of Time, a novel of “murky morals, bad behavior, and troubled people.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• “Encyclopedias are not like rose bushes, for which pruning is everything. They are usually the opposite.” Simon Garfield considers the Encyclopaedia Britannica, then and now. | Lit Hub History

• Colin Kaepernick’s publishing company and Haymarket Books are joining forces to publish an anthology in defense of Black studies. | Publishers Weekly

• Will Higginbotham explores the sites in Oxford where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien discovered a life-changing friendship. | The New York Times

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• Ciera Horton McElroy recommends seven new Southern Gothic novels by women. | Electric Literature

• “The longer you know your characters, the more precisely you can render them.” Paul Harding on trusting the process, teaching Shakespeare, and his new novel, This Other Eden. | The Millions

• From Chinua Achebe to Toyin Falola: 5 essential books Nigeria’s new president should read. | The Conversation
• “A great writer of the eccentric soul.” Colm Tóibín delivers a lecture on the subject of his latest novel, Thomas Mann. | The Heights

Also on Lit Hub: How pioneer abortionist Madame Restell learned her trade • New poetry by Victoria Adukwei Bulley • Read from Melinda Moustakis’s debut novel, Homestead