Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2023

• Alexa Hagerty decodes the messages of trauma written in the skeletons of Argentina’s death flights victims. | Lit Hub History

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• “Just when you think you’re about to get a thick and steamy anthology of what women want, we find the same censorship and control at play.” Is Gillian Anderson’s new anthology of women’s sexual fantasies too restrictive? | Lit Hub

• Jennifer Rosner talks to Natalie Jenner about crafting evocative historical fiction. | Lit Hub Craft

• Patrick Bringley reflects on visiting The Met Cloisters, Manhattan’s unlikely oasis of peace. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Daisy Hildyard traces the origins of James Lovelock, whose Gaia theory forever altered how we think about Earth. | Lit Hub Science

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• “The two accounts speak for the two (dis)United States, one with nothing left to lose and one afraid of losing everything.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• On Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s brilliant and cutting short fiction. | CrimeReads

• “Coulette was, at least for formal poets, the first one who was entirely at home in the chaotic and rich diversity of Los Angeles.” Remembering Henri Coulette, a forgotten voice of Los Angeles. | Los Angeles Daily News

• “The Secret Garden emphasizes the interconnectedness of all of life, something I’ve never felt more aware of than in this perilous, plague-weary period.” Meaghan Mulholland reflects on reading The Secret Garden to her daughter while receiving treatment for Long COVID. | Electric Literature

• Turns out that America’s most recession-proof business is bookstores. | The Hub

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• ChatGPT might be able to help with your science homework, but it still can’t pass English class. | The Toronto Star

• Would you dump your fiancé if he wouldn’t read Middlemarch? Mona Simpson did. | The New York Times

• 10 books about scientific quests for knowledge. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Sarah Ruhl on bringing the words of Max Ritvo to the theater • Why authenticity doesn’t exist in food • Read from Asale Angel-Ajani’s debut novel, A Country You Can Leave