Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2022

TODAY: In 1961, Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy is published by Doubleday. 

• 14 contemporary artists on how reading influences their work (and what they’re reading now!). | Lit Hub Art

• Terese Marie Mailhot considers what book royalties can’t buy. | Lit Hub Money

• “Sometimes a cookie is not just a cookie.” Felicia Berliner on the erotic power of hamantaschen. | Lit Hub Food

• Remembering Maureen Howard, “a bold, adventurous writer of the first rank.” | Lit Hub

• “Football isn’t family. Football is business.” Mike Florio on what it’s really like to play in the NFL. | Lit Hub Sports

• Roger Lowenstein describes how the North beat the South, via dueling economies. | Lit Hub History

• “Geek Love may offend; it may repulse; in doing so, however, it speaks directly to what it means to be human.” A 1989 review of Katherine Dunn’s marvelous misfit opus. | Book Marks

• Which classic mystery writer should you read based on your zodiac sign? | CrimeReads

• “The purpose of the state is to numb the senses. The purpose of a lyric poet is to wake them up.” Ilya Kaminsky talks to Talia Lavin about viral poetry, the Odessa of his youth, and the tragedy of Ukraine. | New York Magazine

• Rachel Kushnet considers skiing and Sartre. | Harper’s

• “In war, mourning the loss of art, be it actual or anticipated, is not separate from mourning for the senseless disruption and destruction of human life.” Yuliya Komska on endangered art and the stained glass of Ukraine. | LARB

• Sydney Page talks to the Virginia teacher who has given away more than 90,000 books to local kids. | The Washington Post

• Are British publishers censoring books so that they can be printed in China? | Financial Times

• “It is a disconnect of morality; a space where the people who most need assistance are shunted to the side, left voiceless.” Kristen Arnett on the profound damage Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill will cause. | TIME

• What are the practical and ethical concerns when it comes to writing about incarcerated people? | Inquest

Also on Lit Hub: Véronique Hyland’s reading list of literary “it” girls • The rich and secret life of a writer of reading guides • Read from Mike Meginnis’s latest novel, Drowning Practice

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