Lit Hub Daily: March 15, 2022

• The only Cormac McCarthy interview of the last 30 years is with these two high school students. | Lit Hub

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• “There was a sense I had to write this story now. A sense that time was running out.” Melissa Fu on the importance of listening to elders. | Lit Hub

• Are all books about economics? Mary Childs makes the case. | Lit Hub Money

• “None of these articles say it, but what they mean is: you should never go there.” Kelsey Ronan considers the writing about her hometown, Flint. | Lit Hub

• On the genius of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons and called them “butterflies of the soul.” | Lit Hub Science

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• Maya Lee reflects on growing up with her mother’s matter-of-fact stories of working as a “prisoner functionary” at Auschwitz-Birkenau. | Lit Hub History

• Gigi Pandian celebrates John Dickson Carr, undisputed king of the locked-room mystery. | CrimeReads

• A look at the ongoing labor reckoning in the publishing industry. | Publishers Lunch  

• “If I could write worthwhile books in such a way that it wouldn’t upset anyone, I would. Unfortunately, that kind of writing has mostly proved not worthwhile.” Melissa Febos on writing about other people. | Kenyon Review

• Peter C. Baker tells the story of getting scammed into handing his debut novel to the notorious manuscript thief. | The New Yorker

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• “You can do anything but you can’t do everything and you have to do something.” Lincoln Michel breaks down his one rule for writing. | Counter Craft

• Diana Suryakusuma talks to Min Jin Lee about Lee’s efforts to raise awareness about anti-Asian hate. | Bloomberg Businessweek

• Michael F. Moore explains why Netflix’s adaptation of The Lost Daughter should credit the novel’s translator, Ann Goldstein. | Words Without Borders

• “I hold out hope that books are true and that this will not—if Shakespeare has his say—end well for Putin.” Il’ja Rákoš on Richard III and the invasion of Ukraine. | The Millions

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of fake identities • Diana Abu-Jaber on finding family histories • Read from Eloghosa Osunde’s debut novel, Vagabonds!