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Nuclear War: What’s in it for You? and 76 other wild book titles you’ve (probably) never heard of. | Lit Hub
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Rafe Posey advises on how to avoid bottomless research holes and navigate the “boggy ground between world-building and pedantry.” | Lit Hub Craft
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“What does it mean to be ‘untouchable’ during a pandemic in which the upper classes are making the world more dangerous for the lower?” Saikat Majumdar considers class and caste in India’s Covid crisis. | Lit Hub Politics
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“INGREDIENTS: One mastodon, plants, water.” Alex Bezzerides on the first humans to start cooking meat (and why we have them to thank for braces). | Lit Hub History
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Sharmila Cohen recommends translated sci-fi books by and about women, featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Hao Jingfang, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“As a writer who goes into these subcultures, I always feel the temptation to point and sneer, which is breathtakingly easy and isn’t all that interesting.” Barrett Swanson in conversation wtih Jordan Kisner. | Lit Hub
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INTERVIEW WITH A JOURNAL: Everything you need to know about Apogee, the journal where marginalized writers are the first priority. | Lit Hub
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From gentleman thieves to consummate professionals, Ashley Weaver takes a look at safecrackers in fact and fiction. | CrimeReads
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“The Israeli soldiers will ask the child not, Did you throw stones, but, Why did you throw stones.” Read Rachel Kushner’s 2016 account of her time in the West Bank. | n+1
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Considering the (banal, pervasive) filing cabinet, and its critical role in 20th century information infrastructure. | Places Journal
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“It is the fanciest hotel I have ever stayed in, and I am here only because I might die.” Alex McElroy reflects on their eight-day stay at a New York City quarantine hotel. | Esquire
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Are unions the way to diversify the publishing industry’s overwhelmingly white workforce? | Workday Minnesota
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“Stories can feel almost like human contact, or at least connection—something I think a lot of us have been missing lately.” Brian Broome on the power of storytelling, his memoir, and empathy. | PEN America
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Claire Fuller discusses craft, character development, and ownership. | Full Stop
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“Everybody is a reader, you just have to find the right book that speaks to your soul.” Talking to Darlene Okpo, who recently opened the new Brooklyn bookstore Adanne. | Vogue
Also on Lit Hub: Dave Seminara gets mixed up in the subculture of extreme travelers • Does a color exist if we don’t have a name for it? • Read from Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s debut novel, Yes, Daddy
