Lit Hub Daily: March 21, 2023

• Spring has sprung, and so have these 20 new books. | The Hub

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• “The things my daughters come up with are so much richer and more surreal than of the three-act conservative fantasies Disney conjures for them.” Julia Langbein on channeling her parental anxiety into better characters. | Lit Hub

• Rachel Jamison Webster reflects on the ethics of writing about race as a white woman. | Lit Hub

• Szilvia Molnar on writing about the early postpartum days of motherhood while living them. | Lit Hub

• Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash discuss Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and capturing the myth of celebrity in fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• Molly Odintz looks at 7 crime novels set against the backdrop of reality TV shows. | CrimeReads

• From Sokcho, South Korea, to western Montana, 8 books that will transport you elsewhere. | The Atlantic

• “We’re in a financial environment where all risk-taking is public, and all the profits are privatized.” For Jessi Jezewska Stevens this isn’t a banking crisis, it’s an inequality crisis. | Q Sharp Whydunnit

• “Once you monetize your own authenticity, how do you keep it authentic?” So how do BookTok’ers make money? | Vox

• Russian novelist Mikhail Shishkin has some ideas on “how to de-Putinize Russia.” | The Telegraph

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• “Good porn is no longer than twenty minutes long.” Polly Barton shares three “porn chats” she had with friends and acquaintances, after a lifetime of never talking about porn. | The Paris Review

• Hua Hsu on how J. Crew made prep an aspirational identity. | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: Mona Simpson on the role of research in novel writing • A poem by Charif Shanahan • Read from Catherine Lacey’s latest novel, Biography of X