Lit Hub Daily: March 28, 2023

• Kelly Link gives you permission to write in the afternoon, and other nuggets from the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub

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• Jess Row on what fiction can teach us about surviving the slow apocalypse: “That deficit is our failure to imagine, and grapple with, solidarity.” | Lit Hub

• 18 new books looking for love. | The Hub

• Of bats and octopi: How writing about animals can help us better understand our (human) characters. | Lit Hub Nature

• “I’ve lived nearly all my life with two incompatible ideas in my head: I wish I were dead and I’m glad my suicides failed.” Clancy Martin on the contradictions of living through suicidal moments. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• The manuscript thief has been ordered to be deported (and to pay $88,000 in restitution to Penguin Random House). | The New York Times

• Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has sparked a debate about credit in fiction. | The Washington Post

• Speaking of credit, the author of the book behind Mean Girls is considering suing for more money from the franchise. | Entertainment Weekly

• Elizabeth Kolbert on the con artists of the animal kingdom. | The New Yorker

• 11 books about women on the brink. | Electric Literature

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• The city of Portsmouth in England will be delivering library books this summer via tuk-tuk (aka motorized rickshaw). | Portsmouth City Council

Also on Lit Hub: Memories of a distant home in milo toast • Laura Spence-Ash on crafting an epic family saga • Read from Maki Kashimada’s newly translated novel, Love at Six Thousand Degrees (tr. Haydn Trowell)