Lit Hub Daily: March 3, 2023

• “What an entrance she made; it was as if she was rising up from the deep grave of history.” Revisit the day explorers finally found Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck. | Lit Hub History

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• What if? Lidia Yuknavitch on her teaching philosophy. | Lit Hub Craft

• Meet the women who put their lives on the line to save the works of Hildegard of Bingen. | Lit Hub Religion

• A peek into 1960s Sydney, Australia, the drag capital of the world. | Lit Hub

• “How could I read articles like Roxane Gay’s and still like this movie? How could anyone?” Laura Valenza reckons with The Whale. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• Donal Ryan’s The Queen of Dirt Island, Kate Zernike’s The Exceptions, and Priya Guns’s Your Driver Is Waiting all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• David Masciotra considers the 1999 film that foresaw the spread of right-wing extremism in America. | CrimeReads

• Haruki Murakami’s first novel in six years will be published in April, and a new Zadie Smith novel arrives this fall. | The Hub

• Unsurprisingly, sexism in school reading lists is still a thing. | The Guardian

• Finally, someone is comparing Ron DeSantis’s new memoir to the glories of Cocaine Bear. | The Washington Post

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• “I actually said to him, ‘Bill, I know a part that will get you the Best Actor Oscar.’” Sophie Gilbert talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his Oscar-nominated film, Living, starring Bill Nighy. | The Atlantic

• Roxana Hadadi writes that the new Daisy Jones & the Six adaptation shrinks Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel. | Vulture

• Sachin Ketkar talks to Jenny Bhatt about subtractive and creative bilingualism, and the challenges of Gujarati translation. | Words Without Borders

Also on Lit Hub: An interview with Catalyst Press • The literary film and TV you need to stream in March • Read from a story by Claudio Morandini (tr. Clarissa Botsford)