Lit Hub Daily: May 15, 2023

Elizabeth Winkler reflects on addressing the “most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature”—Shakespeare’s identity. | Lit Hub

Luis Jaramillo on the unlikely discovery of an old family recipe. | Lit Hub Food

“If you write a memoir that ends where you thought it would, you’re probably doing something wrong.” Abigail Thomas talks to Mira Ptacin about her new book, Still Life at Eighty. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Tim Mohr on being the translator and being translated. | Lit Hub

Julie Carr calls for returning to a more radical approach to the reproductive movement. | Lit Hub Politics

Literature against fascism: Why the Spanish Civil War mattered to writers on distant shores. | Lit Hub History

The writers’ strike has begun to visibly affect Netflix, which, fittingly, is one of the strike’s main targets. | The New York Times

Hannah Halperin shares a list of novels about all-consuming romance and dangerous obsessions. | Electric Literature

How the Dutch masters used weather in their maritime paintings to portray bigger ideas. | The London Review of Books

“It is a profoundly embarrassing thing to present before a fellow human and articulate, out loud, a desire for something called ‘Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe.’” Aaron Tims on sad chain salads. | The Baffler

Alicia Andrzejewski looks at bad mothers in literature. | Boston Globe

A college student confirms: yes, we’re all using ChatGPT. | The Chronicle of Higher Education

As musicians prepared for Saturday’s Eurovision song contest, entries for its literary counterpart were announced. | The Guardian