Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2018

• Women writing the west: six works of nonfiction you should read. | Lit Hub
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: In the endless sameness of prison, writing kept me human. | Lit Hub
• Essential writing advice from Virginia Woolf. | Lit Hub
• How to make bookstore appearance ten times more interesting (Craig Terlson has some ideas). | Lit Hub
• On “mother of forensic science” Frances Glessner’s meticulous, dollhouse-sized recreations of suspected crime scenes. | CrimeReads
• Critic Mark Athitakis on the brilliance of Janey Smiley, Midwestern stereotypes, and incorrect, negative perceptions of book reviewers (“it’d take a long time to become even a healthy thousandaire as a craven hatchet-jobber”). | Book Marks
• Ursula K. Le Guin once recorded an electronica album—and yes, it’s good. | The Guardian
• Jessa Crispin asks, “What is it going to take to have a full reconsideration of how literature has been dominated by one small worldview, to see how our ideas of greatness are infested by our own need to see our selves, our gender, our nation as great . . . ?” | The Baffler
• Why libraries around the country have started giving away free pouches of seeds. | Atlas Obscura
• “There are no strong, silent men to set the moral universe in order. There are only girls who survive the cruelty enacted on them by men, and girls who die.” How Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s thrillers investigate misogyny. | The Walrus
• Fatimah Asghar, Erika L. Sanchez, and more: 15 writers comprising the new Chicago Renaissance. | Chicago Review of Books
• “It is precisely at a young age. . . when the strongest impact can be made in terms of exposing people to other cultures.” Speaking with 5 publishers of children’s literature in translation. | Words Without Borders
• From scrapped deals to pulped books to “not our place to judge:” how the publishing industry is confronting sexual harassment. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Our American Rome: On the case of Peter Thiel vs. Gawker · Jane Delury recalls her lost France and the forests of Chateauroux · Read from Jon Pineda’s novel, Let’s No One Get Hurt.