Lit Hub Daily: March 2, 2018

• If they gave Oscars to books, our 2017 nominees (with apologies to the National Book Awards, the real Oscars for books!). | Literary Hub
• Raising a transgender child in the age of Trump. | Literary Hub
• World-class philosopher, masterful troll: on the time Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated for book-burning. | Literary Hub
• 33 of the weirdest Philip K. Dick book covers we could find. | Literary Hub
• Off the clock: from the Oscars to Key and Peele, what the Lit Hub staff is up to this weekend. | Literary Hub
• Erotic thrillers, Dublin memoirs, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan has been named the new President of PEN America. | PEN America
• “I picked up her first book, The Debut. Upon finishing it, I went to the Strand and bought copies of every one of her novels.” Rumaan Alam’s ode to Anita Brookner. | The New York Times
• “friends! if i may interrupt right quick”. . . to tell you to read this new poem by Danez Smith. | Poetry Foundation
• “I remember thinking, I should do this now. I should finish my edits before it really hits me that he’s gone.” Nicole Chung on writing her memoir while grieving. | Longreads
• The “sensory, sensual” trailer for the Starz adaptation of Stephanie Danler’s best-selling Sweetbitter is out. | Vulture
• From a definitive biography to the fan’s perspective, 8 essential books on everyone’s favorite dad, Bruce Springsteen. | Pitchfork
• “As an adult, this is how I carry the poverty of my Mississippi youth forward with me: by remembering the emptiness inside me.” Jesmyn Ward on the complexities of raising children in her home state. | The Atlantic
• The Ripped Bodice has completed its second annual survey of the state of racial diversity in romance publishing. The results are not rosy. | The Ripped Bodice

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