Lit Hub Daily: May 11, 2023

• Adam Hart looks at our shared history with predators… including eagles that would happily swoop up a toddler if given the chance. | Lit Hub Nature

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• “The interior was so fully realized and so maximized for pothead goofing off that I didn’t want to leave.” Garth Risk Hallberg goes behind the scenes of the new City on Fire series adaptation. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• John N. Maclean considers Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River, “a luminous fishing tale and unsolved mystery.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• How a 1980s concert brought Nelson Mandela new fame. | Lit Hub Music

• Charles Yu reflects on Jeff Vandermeer’s powerfully weird first novel: “VanderMeer writes with all of the sensory apparatuses we ordinary human writers have, plus some additional equipment, it seems.” | Lit Hub Criticism

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• “Yes, it’s a little embarrassing for everyone involved, but I choose to look on the bright side: At least he’s not doing crypto commercials.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Can we interest you in some fine literary gossip? | The Spinoff

• On the 90th anniversary of Germany’s book burnings. | Publishing Perspectives

• “Science fiction and fantasy are providing an oasis for young readers craving LGBTQ characters.” On finding safe queer spaces in a world of shootings and book bans. | The Hill

• Erin Maglaque examines the work of Lauren Berlant: How did women come to believe that their emotional lives were contiguous, already known to one another, when, as Berlant writes, ‘aloneness is one of the affective experiences of being collectively, structurally unprivileged?’” | The London Review of Books

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• Paying respects to Heather “Dooce” Armstrong, one of the original mommy bloggers. | The Cut

• In Sierra Leone, improving maternal health through storytelling. | LARB

Also on Lit Hub: Ben Okri proposes new visions for our collective future • New poetry by Thea Brown • Read from Jens Liljestrand’s debut novel, Even If Everything Ends