Lit Hub Daily: May 18, 2021

• “In the culture of medicine, doctors believe they treat all patients the same. The data indicate otherwise.” Dr. Robert Pearl on racial bias and inequity in healthcare. | Lit Hub

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• Alex McElory on trans self-acceptance narratives, and the hope that “someday there won’t be anything unusual or revelatory about them.” | Lit Hub

• Tuesday just got infinitely better, thanks to these new books. | The Hub

• “Black boys had to show through our behavior that we were undeniably, incontrovertibly the most male.” Brian Broome considers the one-two punch of gender and racial identity. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Zachary Karabell on the financial firm Brown Brothers Harriman, whose saga is “a window into the crucial nexus of money, power and influence that made America.” | Lit Hub History

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• Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper on Hasidic fear of gentrification, and the zealous anti-hipster campaign in Williamsburg. | Lit Hub

• Courtney Zoffness pays tribute to Stephen Dixon, whose commitment to genuineness—and his typewriter—shaped students and readers. | Lit Hub

• “Ours has always been the gender of endurance, of resistance. Not that we had a choice.” Virginie Despentes on continuing the feminist revolution. | Lit Hub

• On Personal Space, Lilly Dancyger talks to Sari Botton about the physical and emotional tolls of writing memoir. | The Virtual Book Channel

• “The idea that this is ancient history–it never felt ancient to me. I’m one generation away.” Brit Bennet discusses The Vanishing Half, the concept of passing, and white liberal racism. | The Guardian

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• Suzanne Enzerink revisits Mulholland Drive, which “remains as much of a mystery as it was on the balmy spring day it was released.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• David Yoon drew on his experience in tech to write his first adult novel, which “started off as a horror novel—like, straight-up dystopia.” | Kirkus Reviews

• “Younger maintains all of the starry eyed glamour of the book world, and very little of its heartache.” Maris Kreizman on Younger as publishing world fan fiction. | Town & Country

• How Vasily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate—confiscated by the KGB in 1961—was finally published in 1988. | JSTOR

• “I don’t think there is any greater loneliness than looking directly at the untamable fury of our world.” Kristen Radtke on listening to loneliness. | New York Times

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• Bolu Babalola recommends the best romance books for summer. | Jezebel

Also on Lit Hub: Erica Jenks Henry on the agony (and ecstasy) of publishing your work in a literary magazine • Barrett Swanson on encountering God and ghosts at the Wisconsin State Fair • Read from Francis Spufford’s latest novel, Light Perpetual