Lit Hub Daily: March 7, 2022

• “For the first time, I’m finally getting film roles where my character’s name is Korean.” Sandra Oh on her journey through Hollywood. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• What kind of first draft should you write? Whatever kind you can, says Matt Bell. | Lit Hub Craft

• “To have lost her was to have lost a world I longed to visit.” Amal El-Mohtar on coming to Ursula K. Le Guin both too late and at exactly the right time. | Lit Hub

• Dieter Buchhart considers the increasing significance of Keith Haring’s and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s postmodern art. | Lit Hub Art

• Take it from the experts: indie booksellers recommend the best of independent presses this February and March. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Ladette Randolph on finding thorns, solace, and abundant wisdom in the works of Willa Cather. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Oliver Bullough chooses books that help us better understand the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | The Guardian

• Lawmakers in Idaho are considering whether to allow prosecutors to criminally charge librarians for lending certain books to minors. | Boise State Public Radio

• Andrew Frisardi talks about translating poetry from a different era, working on Dante, and the influence of philosophy on his work. | LARB

• Nina Li Coomes explores how Drive My Car pushes the limits of language with its use of sound and soundlessness. | The Atlantic

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• Keith Gessen and veteran journalist Leonid Shvets discuss the political situation in Ukraine, the background to the present conflict, and Shvets’ hopes for the immediate future. | n+1

• On the synergy between video games and novels. | JSTOR Daily  

• “They were at best akin to a Sharper Image where you could buy books by Ron Chernow and Brad Thor.” Alex Shephard writes an obituary for Amazon’s terrible bookstores. | The New Republic

Also on Lit Hub: Finding inspiration in Renoir’s fugitive pigments • A poem by Sara Henning • Read from Liam Mcilvanney’s latest novel, The Heretic