Lit Hub Daily: March 10, 2020

• Pintle, gudgeon, chock: Luis Jaramillo on the weird and wonderful jargon of the high seas. | Lit Hub
• Let us now praise the onion, “singularly useful allium” and one of the Holy Trinity of vegetables. | Lit Hub Food
• Kevin Nguyen, Paul Lisicky, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, and more take the Lit Hub Author Questionnaire. | Lit Hub
• How Jewish dairy lunchrooms became alternatives to saloons in Prohibition-era New York. | Lit Hub Food
• In case you’re stockpiling books this month, here are some gems you may have missed from February. | Lit Hub
• Barn 8 author Deb Olin Unferth shares five books popular in the Connally Unit maximum security prison, from The Sellout to Their Eyes Were Watching God. | Book Marks
• Curtis Evans on the poison-pen letter writing phenomenon of the early 20th century. | CrimeReads
• Was William Styron, author of The Confessions of Nat Turner, the first mainstream author to be accused of cultural appropriation? His daughter, Alexandra, raises the question. | The Atlantic
• Costica Bradatan on conspiracies and meaning-making in the life of Umberto Eco. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Slouch through Joan Didion’s Los Angeles with an interactive map of the city as she knew it. | Curbed
• Meet a few of the women making the book world a little better. | Refinery29
• “What is it exactly that makes him so difficult to translate, and why do so many people try?” On the challenges of adapting Stephen King. | The Washington Post
• These 40 books show a range of queer narratives, from memoir to graphic novels. | Book Riot
• An installation by artist Edmund de Waal at the British Museum addresses “heartbreaking” library closures in the UK. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: On Behind the Mic, a conversation with Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature • Cultivating solitude, the Henry James way • “The Night Sky at Coppermine”: A poem from N. Scott Momaday’s collection The Death of Sitting Bear • Read an excerpt from Therese Anne Fowler’s new novel A Good Neighborhood.