Lit Hub Daily: May 10, 2021

• Anna Dorn on the “hideous heirloom” passed down in her family, which she tried (and failed) to avoid: a career as a lawyer. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• On the comeback of Rudy Gobert, COVID Patient Zero of the NBA, and one incredibly surreal season of basketball. | Lit Hub Sports

• Your week in virtual book events, including Philly’s 215 Literary Fest. | Lit Hub

• Rónán Hession reflects on being told that his debut novel is plotless, and what we mean by that description anyway. | Lit Hub

• Kate Durbin talks to Chelsea Hodson about the Greek Chorus of objects on Hoarders, and the tension between fantasy and reality in America. | Lit Hub

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• “Maybe crime is eternal, but not the Camorra.” John Domini reckons with the impact that the Neapolitan Mafia has had on his family’s livelihood. | Lit Hub

• INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Rachel Wiseman, managing editor of The Point, describes running a magazine that’s willing to “entertain sentiments like enthusiasm and reverence.” | Lit Hub

• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor considers Mariam Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project. | The New Yorker

• So much for companionable solitude—Walden Pond is teeming with jellyfish. | Atlas Obscura

• “Last year something massive came hurtling into view and exploded against the surface of daily life in the US.” Tobi Haslett on the uprising sparked by George Floyd’s murder. | n+1

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• This is how trans and nonbinary voice actors are radically changing up the audiobook landscape. | BuzzFeed News

• Sasha Banks on Black identity and the limitations of patriotism. | The Atlantic

• Eileen Myles creates “their own private rendition” of a Berlin exhibition featuring photographer Peter Hujar and writer Moyra Davey. | The Paris Review

• How jazz poetry grew from “roots in the Black experience.” | JSTOR Daily

Also on Lit Hub: Sarah Sentilles on the complicated pain of trying to adopt a child • Alison Bechdel on transcendentalism and bliss • Read from Jennifer Saint’s debut novel, Ariadne