Lit Hub Daily: March 25, 2022

• Your complete literary guide to the Oscar nominated films (plus some honorable mentions). | Lit Hub 2022 Oscars

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• “My whole practical thesis around the craft of writing a sex scene is this: it is exactly the same as any other scene.” Advice from Melissa Febos. | Lit Hub Craft

• Annie Berke considers the acting greatness of Jessie Buckley, who played young Leda in The Lost Daughter. | Lit Hub Film

• “It helps to remember that both professions are arts, not sciences.” Author Erika Krouse chats about her time as a private investigator. | Lit Hub

• What is it like to be a funeral director during a deadly pandemic? | Lit Hub

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• New titles by Anne Tyler, David Keenan, María Gainza, and Stephen Galloway all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Josh Weiss with 10 must-read alternate history thrillers. | CrimeReads

• Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday at 84, authored a number of books on history and foreign policy. | NPR

• “How can I move through the world knowing that the men who think these thoughts are real?” Elaine Hsieh Chou on the public and private violence against Asian women. | The Cut

• In advance of Passover, these children’s books celebrate Jewish heritage. | The Virginian-Pilot

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• Karim Alrawi on Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s collection of Egyptian prison writings, a central focus of which is “rethinking the defeat of the Arab Spring.” | LARB

• “These wearable objects possess an autonomy which allows them to be taken up as totems and instigators of the unfolding drama.” Hannah Gold explores the fashion of Elena Ferrante. | Gawker

• Where have all the artist-addicts gone? | T Magazine

• Crystal Hana Kim, R.O. Kwon, and Nicole Chung discuss finding community in novel-writing. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: John Searles recommends six novels set in abandoned places • Coco Mellors on “collecting” verbal quirks • New fiction by Rabih Alameddine