Lit Hub Daily: March 14, 2022

• “Pandemics end, but we are not who we were when they started.” Gabrielle Bellot considers literary defamiliarization, the risk of life, and art as a way of reencountering. | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic

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• How to Film a Lyric Essay: Matthew King explores How to with John Wilson, a genre-bending portrait of public life. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “I kept stumbling over the question of what a woman can or can’t do inside a man’s novel.” Francesco Pacifico on writing female characters. | Lit Hub

• Sarah Blake muses on the impossible (and inevitable) goal of a mother. | Lit Hub

• Flirting with someone else’s characters—or, lessons from a crash course in ghostwriting. | Lit Hub Craft

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• Gia de Canadet on the kinship between creativity and depression. | Lit Hub

• Conspiracies, religion, and flying saucers: Sarah Krasnostein recommends books about why, and how, we form beliefs. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Malcolm Gladwell discusses the future of audiobooks. | Lit Hub Radio

• “Eve wanted to be where the action was. She was always right at the very cutting edge of whatever was happening and looking for the most interesting people.”

• Hear Eve Babitz remembered by her friends and family. | Los Angeles Magazine

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• Chloe Veltman reports on the growing push for more bilingual children’s books, especially in educational spaces. | KQED

• Daniel Rasmussen talks about three books that cover the new world of cryptocurrency. | The Wall Street Journal

• “When opportunity presents itself, they never ask, Why me?” What celebrity ghostwriter Caroline Cala Donofrio learned from telling the stories of the rich and famous. | The Cut 

• Tara Isabella Burton considers the seduction of the Catholic novel in a secular age. | Gawker

• When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer, “the Agatha Christie of romance novels”? | Vox

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• “We are all suffering from a prolonged hunger, and the realities of our circumstances won’t let us be satiated.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the “sad bangers” of his pandemic soundtrack. | The New York Times Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: Oliver Milman on our great debt to insects • Adrian Shirk on the dreams of utopian groupies • Read from Stewart O’nan’s latest novel, Ocean State