Lit Hub Daily: May 18, 2022

• Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey talk about finding creative freedom in The Office. | Lit Hub TV
• Guy Gavriel Kay wonders what we’ve lost (and, more importantly, what we’ve gained) with the ubiquity of the virtual reading tour. | Lit Hub
• “As if god’s optics weren’t aiming straight for your heart.” Finding the spirit of Ukrainian resistance in the poetry of Marjana Savka. | Lit Hub Ukraine
• “To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.” How anxiety evolved through the Middle Ages and early modern Europe. | Lit Hub History
• How Greenwich Village bohemians found their way to Provincetown: John Taylor Williams tells the story of migratory radicals. | Lit Hub History
• “Cather left most of her assets, including books and papers, to Lewis, and she named her as her literary executor.” On Willa Cather’s long-term relationship with Edith Lewis. | Lit Hub Biography
• The quick and dirty on foot fetishes: Rachel Feldman looks into the theories behind our (very common) fixation on feet. | Lit Hub
• Putsata Reang on finally telling her own origin story as a refugee. | Lit Hub
• Anne Heltzel on the cult of motherhood. | CrimeReads
• Julian Lucas considers Ishmael Reed’s 1969 satire Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, which “married the Western to the Afrocentric vogue for Ancient Egypt.” | NYRB
• “The neo-aestheticist boredom with social critique? That’s vulgar. And self-professed aesthetes should write good sentences, frankly.” For the tenth installment of Criticism in Public, Jessica Swoboda talks to Tobi Haslett. | The Point
• Buffalo’s poet laureate Jillian Hanesworth talks about trying to find words of comfort amid the community’s devastation. | Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
• “Claiming that the classics are just the work of ‘straight cis Western white men’ doesn’t strike me as a progressive stance.” Lincoln Michel weighs in on the “classics” discourse. | Counter Craft
• Texas librarians are reporting facing harassment as they resist book bans in their areas. | Texas Tribune
• Susie Dumond on how YA books helped her come to terms with her queer teenage self. | Book RiotAshawnta Jackson explores a new ethnomusicology project that shows “incredible influence of African American music and its use in social movements throughout the years.” | JSTOR Daily

Also on Lit Hub: Naheed Phiroze Patel on the significance of life-long projects • Aaron Angello on the role of stillness in the creative process • From the collection Family Album, translated by Mary Ellen Fieweger