Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2021

• Emily Temple reports back on The Underground Railroad, streaming today, and how Barry Jenkins’ stranger, alienating cinematic prose works with Colson Whitehead’s prose-prose. | Lit Hub TV

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• Pride and Property: Phyllis Richardson on the homes that influenced Austen’s writing, from the rectory at Steventon to Chawton cottage. | Lit Hub

• John Lithgow on performing William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow for 92nd Street Y. | The Hub

• Katherine St. John recommends her five favorite novels about Hollywood and aspiring stars. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Isaac Wheeler explains how the singular “they” saved his Ukrainian-to-English translation of Serhiy Zhadan’s novel The Orphanage. | Lit Hub Translation

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• Tobias Carroll rereads the malleable, unpredictable work of M. John Harrison, the best genre-subverting writer you’ve never heard of. | Lit Hub Criticism

• INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: A behind-the-scenes look at the aspirational yet approachable Tin House. | Lit Hub

• Remembering Costello’s: How an Irish barman left his mark on the literary world. | Lit Hub

• WATCH: Patricia Lockwood, Jillian Weise, Khalisa Rae, and Gina Nutt perform at the Franklin Park Reading Series. | The Virtual Book Channel

• Barry Jenkins discusses The Underground Railroad, the horrors of American history, and avoiding the exploitation of Black trauma in art. | Buzzfeed News

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• “I’m interested in reading broadly, but I want to first and foremost read the work of Black women writers.” Newly appointed Triangle House literary agent Kima Jones on finding new works by marginalized writers. | Okayplayer

• Kiese Laymon explores “the paradoxes of revision, restoration, and repair” in Black friendships. | New York Magazine

• “For me, the secret to surviving parenthood is the same as the secret to surviving anything tough/demanding: community.” Nicole Chung on letting go of illusions in parenting, and saying yes to dessert. | Raising Mothers

• “Writing is not a reflection of the self but its transmutation. The act requires externalizing the contents of one’s mind into a new form that can be seen and understood by someone else.” Meghan O’Gieblyn considers the limits of self-knowledge. | The Paris Review

• “The spirit of manifest destiny has been rebranded into the travelogue.” Rosa Boshier breaks down the relationship between capitalism, appropriation, and place. | Catapult

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• Hoa Nguyen describes writing poetry as “a way to sing forward again, to sing that beingness, untied from injury or despite injury.” | LARB

Also on Lit Hub: A. J. Gnuse on why we find creepy children so compelling • Cate Doty on the evolution of a society mainstay: the Times wedding pages • Read a story from Ethel Rohan’s lettest collection, In the Event of Contact