Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2023

“If my wife and I ever get divorced you can bet ‘overwhelmed by towers of flammable prose’ will be her first line item.” Samantha Irby takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub Humor

Daisy Florin muses on creating fictional structures to write about troubling experiences. | Lit Hub

From Fitzgerald to Ferrante, a reading list of complicated friendships. | Lit Hub

“At home, I am my own nurse, doctor, husband. I am my own secret.” Cassandra Jackson on the invisibility of fertility treatments. | Lit Hub Memoir

How screenwriting can help you write stronger fiction. | Lit Hub Craft

Emma Cline’s The Guest, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life, and T.C. Boyle’s Blue Skies all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

The best international crime fiction of the month, recommended by Molly Odintz. | CrimeReads

The only shopping list we want to read is Samantha Irby’s. | The Strategist

The Dirtyverse is expanding into the books biz. | Dirt

Psychology Today asking (and answering) the hard questions: Can I be friends with people who don’t read books? | Psychology Today

Hamilton Nolan has the one good use-case for AI: automate the CEOs | How Things Work

“People don’t know what datelines mean.” Behold “enhanced bylines” in the New York Times. | Nieman Lab

Six new books to check out for AAPI Heritage Month. | LA Times