Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2022

• “For two years, I workshopped the novel, but I was also workshopping myself.” How writing a novel helped Jules Ohman say gay. | Lit Hub

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• 7 Russian books that outlived the censors. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• What happens to the world when more people than ever are living to be centenarians? | Lit Hub

• “3pm, Rise. 3.05, Chivas Regal with the morning papers.” How to live, eat, and drink like your favorite writers. | Lit Hub

• Erika L. Sánchez considers Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima, which takes seriously “the tragedy of childhood and adolescence.” | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Michael Kazin observes how the Clinton years transformed the Democratic Party (for the worse). | Lit Hub Politics

• Cry over The Book Thief, laugh with Katherine Heiny, re-read The Little House on the Prairie, and more rapid-fire book recommendations from Catherine Cho. | Book Marks

• “After 2014, Ukrainians asked themselves what sort of country they wished to live in, and then set about building it with a sense of urgency.” Olesya Khromeychuk and Sonya Bilocerkowycz consider the nation Ukraine has become. | The New York Review of Books

• Hannah Sampson makes a case for books as the best travel souvenirs. (No arguments there.) | The Washington Post

• “I noticed him right away, by the way he carried himself.” Barbara Jacobs describes a love story that began in the library. | Los Angeles Times

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• Why families need more bilingual children’s books. | Chalkbeat Newark

• “For now, I just message everyone: ‘And you? How are you?’ Hearing an answer is the only thing that matters.” Ilya Kaminsky speaks to Odesa writers about literature in wartime. | The Paris Review

• How John Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud unleashed American grief. | The Atlantic

• Anne Wallentine on the evolution of romance novel covers, which have “both combatted—and been shaped by—sexist attitudes towards a genre that centers and celebrates women’s sexuality and romance.” | Slate

• Matt Bell explains how to write a novel in three drafts. | Publishers Weekly

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Also on Lit Hub: Natalie Haynes on the motivations of a maligned figure: Clytemnestra • A poem by Carolyn Forché • Read from David Keenan’s latest novel, Xstabeth