Lit Hub Daily: May 10, 2023

• “Characters caught in their own blocks of stone.” What Bruce Springsteen learned from Flannery O’Connor. | Lit Hub Music

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• Here’s a trivia question for you: Who was the only sitting president to contribute to a literary journal? | Lit Hub Poetry

• “In a medical culture that privileges the doctor’s voice over the patient’s, something gets lost.” Jennifer Lunden on long Covid, Descartes’ destructive influence on medicine, and more. | Lit Hub Health

• Andrew Quintana reviews the stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, a rehabilitation of Shakespeare’s sister. | Lit Hub Theater

• On Frankenstein’s complicated relationship with science. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• Peek inside the Folio Society’s terrifying 40th anniversary edition of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. | Gizmodo

• George R.R. Martin has some strong feelings about the “abominable” treatment of TV writers. | Collider

• After writing a children’s book about grief, inspired by the death of her husband, a Utah woman has been charged with murder. Of her husband. | The Hub

• McMansion Hell goes deep on American decline. | The Baffler

• The creator of Dickinson waves goodbye to human storytelling on her way to the picket line. | Vanity Fair

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Also on Lit Hub: How the Cultural Revolution played society against itself • Reading beyond London’s WWII “blitz spirit” • Read from Andrew Krivak’s latest novel, Like the Appearance of Horses