Lit Hub Daily: March 8, 2023

TODAY: In 1978, Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy originates as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK.  

• What does it mean to win the Nobel Prize as a woman? Jessi Haley takes a look at the women who’ve won, from Selma Lagerlöfto to Annie Ernaux. | Lit Hub

• Jenny Jackson, longtime editor turned debut author, describes the growing pains of switching roles. | Lit Hub

• Oscars Countdown: What to read (and watch) after Best Picture contenders Elvis and Tár. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Get to know the five PEN/Faulkner finalists of 2023: Jonathan Escoffery, Kathryn Harlan, Dionne Irving, Yiyun Li, and Laura Warrell. | Lit Hub

• “Indigenous people aren’t in the forest, they are forest.” Eliane Brum on the Amazon, whiteness, and a more holistic approach to ecology. | Lit Hub Nature

• Emilia Hart recommends five novels featuring witchcraft. | CrimeReads

• Nothing new: The plight of novelist, academic, and tattoo artist Samuel Steward shows that “cancel culture” was alive and well in the 1930s. | The Conversation

• “Why does a book so concerned with the looming issues of our day, and possessed of such an urgent authorial voice, feel like such a time sink?” Parul Sehgal considers Jenny Odell’s Saving Time. | The New Yorker

• Author and disability advocate Judy Heumann has died at 75. | The New York Times

• Matthew Zapruder reflects on writing poetry on his (not quiet at all) Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter. | The Paris Review

Also on Lit Hub: How wave riding is like writing • On the rise and fall (and rise?) of German militarism, from the 17th century to today • Read from Eleanor Catton’s latest novel, Birnam Wood

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