Lit Hub Daily: March 29, 2019

• “The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” Hilal Isler on James Baldwin’s decade in Istanbul, and finding home when you’re not looking for it. | Lit Hub
• Never underestimate the power of the British Library Reader Pass: five reasons a writer should move to London. | Lit Hub
• The Lit Hub staff’s favorite stories of the month, from a Before Sunrise tour of Vienna to the grimly comic realities of mercenary sex writing. | Lit Hub
• The big Slaughterhouse-Five-oh: in honor of the 50th birthday of Vonnegut’s classic, here are its best covers from around the world. | Lit Hub
• “Being alive does not mean just not being dead.” How the contemporary cancer memoir is reconfiguring grief. | Lit Hub
• On compassion and dissent in an outpost of empire: the story of Olive Schreiner, the Charlotte Brontë of South Africa. | Lit Hub
• New titles from Amy Hemel, Nathan Englander, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Édouard Louis all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “True crime is all about transgression.” Nicola Maye Goldberg recommends nine thought-provoking and experimental takes on the true crime genre. | CrimeReads
• Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand will play everyone’s favorite power-hungry Scots, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, in Joel Coen’s forthcoming film adaptation. | Variety
• “The director turned to another medium, one that would allow him to revisit one particular ‘framework of reality’–his parents’ lives and doomed marriage”: Daniel Mendelsohn on Ingmar Bergman’s three autobiographical novels. | The New York Review of Books
• Inside the Lit Bar, the Bronx’s new bookstore and community space. | Teen Vogue
• “The film underscores the idea that erasure may be as significant, if not more so, than the writing itself.” What movies can teach us about writing. | LARB
• LifeWay Christian, the evangelical bookseller and publishing house, will close all of its bricks-and-mortar locations by the end of the year. | NPR
• “While I admire metaphors in the work of other writers, there’s a way in which they seem fake—nothing is like anything else.” Amy Hempel in conversation with Julia Slavin. | BOMB

Also on Lit Hub: On the New Books Network, Galit Gottlieb talks spying on diplomats through the big red Kremlin walls • “Ghost Story,” by Laura Freudenthaler • A poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata • Read from The Old Drift