Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2022

TODAY: In 1885, Japanese writer, artist, and philosopher Saneatsu Mushanokōji is born.  

• Making books in bomb shelters: Kateryna Volkova reflects on life as a publisher in wartime Ukraine. | Lit Hub Ukraine

• “That nameless young woman prepared me for what I did not know my future would bring: stinging quips and side-eye admonishment from the greatest living writer.” A. J. Verdelle recalls a memorable Q&A with Toni Morrison. | Lit Hub

• Revisiting the forgotten queer women rarely recognized as part of the Stonewall uprising. | Lit Hub History

• Judge Victoria Pratt against poverty as crime. | Lit Hub Politics

• Five writers open up about an unexpected emotional response to publishing their first book: shame. | Lit Hub Roundtable

• Krithika Varagur considers Edith Wharton’s divergent Gilded Age novel, The Old Maid. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Why do so many cold cases go unsolved? Katherine Miles investigates, starting at one of the leading forensic crime conferences in the country. | Lit Hub

• Jia Tolentino on mothering as social change, Justin Torres on Fernanda Melchor’s Miltonian monsters, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Lisa Levy recommends May’s best new psychological thrillers. | CrimeReads

• Sophie Gilbert revisits Penelope Mortimer’s 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, which explores “the calamity of unwanted motherhood.” | The Atlantic

• Anne Enright, Annette Gordon-Reed, and more respond to the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. | NYRB

• “It was very important for me to not confine myself to the tyranny of the one story, also the tyranny of the one interpretation.” Nell Zink talks to Maayan Eitan about Eitan’s debut, Love. | BOMB

• Sydney Page reports from the small Pennsylvania town where a student started a “forbidden book club.” | The Washington Post

• Ayşegül Savaş lists some favorite novels about neighbors—good, bad, and everything in between. | The Guardian

• Kelly Barnhill recommends books about women’s rage. | Electric Literature

• “Hunger and raw talent may be strong enough to propel you across the border, but it takes more grit than that to keep you there.” Tajja Isen on the realities of being a creative professional in Canada. | The Walrus

Also on Lit Hub: Indie booksellers recommend 24 must-reads by AAPI authors • Angela Garbes on the sensual side of mothering • Read from Najwa Barakat’s newly translated novel, Mister N (tr. Luke Leafgren)

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