Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2022

• “Austen knew much more about female erotic fantasy than is commonly assumed.” Robert Morrison considers Jane Austen’s works as a precursor to Bridgerton. | Lit Hub TV

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• Jonathan Franzen and his art team go behind the scenes of the new backlist redesigns of Franzen’s oeuvre. | Lit Hub Design

• “my love language is heavy as a father’s gaze, / immovable as the eyelids upon his son’s coffin, / which they used all week to steady their guns.” New work by Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk. | Lit Hub Ukraine

• From Humbert Humbert to a millennial vampire, Jess Zimmerman muses on the scale of moral monstrosity. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• A groundbreaking work of staggering merit: On the life and death of literary journal The Portable Lower East Side, circa 1989. | Lit Hub

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• “During my artist-assistant training, I took copious notes. I see now that most of these notes are about pain.” Molly Gallentine’s summer of professionally contemplating the end of humanity. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Ecofeminism or death: What Françoise d’Eaubonne’s radical vision can teach us today. | Lit Hub Nature

• Phoebe Zerwick, the author of Beyond Innocence, recommends books about justice and the carceral state. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• From alt-lit fuccbois to Ferrante fever, it’s the 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• On the comic book DNA informing Alex Segura’s new noir novel, Secret Identity. | CrimeReads

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• Alexandra Horowitz explores the stories hidden in a book’s index. | The Atlantic

• Meet the volunteers of the Matinicus Island Library, located on an island 22 miles off the coast of Maine, who are working to fill its shelves with banned books. | Bangor Daily News

• LA writers reflect on life over the last two years of pandemic. | Los Angeles Times

• “Isolation proved a guard against rigid social expectations, especially those imposed on women.” Magdalena Ostas on Emily Dickinson and the creative “solitude of space.”  | Psyche

• Cal Revely-Calder considers “alt-lit’s jeremiad against the novel.” | The Nation

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• Netflix is developing five new animated series based on Dr. Seuss books. | CNN

• Thoreau’s notebooks documenting his time at Walden Pond are helping scientists understand the effects of climate change on the area. | JSTOR Daily

Also on Lit Hub: How Buffy mishandled characters of color • A poem by Solmaz Sharif • Read from Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel, When We Were Birds