Lit Hub Daily: March 20, 2023

• Alissa Quart on the myths of Little House on the Prairie: “I couldn’t help but recognize that though they were seemingly harmless, these novels and that hit show were a crucial example of the way the bootstrapping ideology wormed its way into the minds of children.” | Lit Hub Criticism 

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• A threat to social order: Regan Penaluna offers a brief accounting of the unacknowledged philosophical genius of women. | Lit Hub Philosophy

• Why every writer should take on the “invigorating, maddening, mind-bending process” of translation. | Lit Hub On Translation

• “Very few people actually want their money to disappear every month.” In which Sally Rooney quietly eviscerates the landlord class. | Irish Times

• “Kinda embarrassing to admit, but not one person came to my Atlanta tour event.” YA writer Jamar J. Perry experiences one of the less pleasant writerly rites of passage. | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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• Rachel Connolly: “Everyone wanted me to have a literary rival—I got drunk with him instead.” Just another day in the Irish literary scene. | The Guardian

• The most anticipated Irish novels of 2023. | Electric Lit

• Rapid-fire book recs from Emily St. John Mandel. | ELLE 

• “These multibillion-dollar programs, which require several city blocks’ worth of energy to run, may now be able to code websites, plan vacations, and draft company-wide emails in the style of William Faulkner. But they have the memory of a goldfish.” What (else) is wrong with ChatGPT. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: Reading the women who enabled greatness • Zoe Fishman on reclaiming widowhood narratives • Read from Jinwoo Chong’s debut novel, Flux