Lit Hub Daily: March 2, 2023

• Carolyn Forche remembers the late, great poet Charles Simic. | Lit Hub

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• Nerds, jocks, and a secret society: Will Schwalbe recalls the start of an unlikely friendship at Yale. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Bruce Krajewski unpacks the criticism of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and its Oscar-nominated adaptation. | Lit Hub Film

• Mirza Waheed on the joys of omnivorous reading: “Moving from book to book, sometimes even on the same day, feels like switching between timelines in a self-designed multiverse.” | Lit Hub

• The beauty of a single sentence: Nick Ripatrazone looks at literary journals dedicated to the prose poem. | Lit Hub Poetry

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• Katie Lumsden on the staying power of Victorian literature. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “All the culture war Mad Libs can’t distract from the dull coldness at this book’s core.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• 15 books Chris Pine (the best Chris?) thinks everyone should read. | Esquire

• “In the worlds le Carré created, truths are rarely self-evident.” Ben Rhodes looks at the double life of John le Carré. | The Atlantic

• Read two new poems by Eve Salzman. | Granta

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• Dwight Garner revisits Michael Lesy’s 1973 cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, un “unclassifiable book [that] earns its portentous title.” | The New York Times

• Have you ever fallen asleep at the library and gotten locked in overnight? Well now you can pay for the privilege… | The Guardian

• “Is the unmodified body a standard-bearer for real bodies, a regulative ideal that actual anatomy can at best approximate?” Becca Rothfeld on feminist critiques of body modification. | Boston Review

Also on Lit Hub: Lakiesha Carr on returning home to write • A reading list of the inbetween • Read from Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, Just a Mother