Lit Hub Daily: May 24, 2022

• “Why am I taking pointers on lesbian sex from Louis CK?” Elif Batuman is asking the tough questions. | Lit Hub

• “In terms of craft, I would need every move I ever learned, plus all the help I could get.” Diana Goetsch reveals how Virginia Woolf, J.A. Baker, and others helped her write a trans memoir. | Lit Hub Craft

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• “I started work at age three, gathering snails in a bucket and lugging them to West 190th Street to be run over.” Read an excerpt from Nell Zink’s new novel, Avalon. | Lit Hub

• Who was Leonardo da Vinci in boyhood and midlife? | Lit Hub Biography

• “That baseball, something I had loved and played and followed as a boy with complete un-self-consciousness, could be the engine of great writing was a revelation.” Michael Lindgren on the great Roger Angell. | Lit Hub

• “I mentally etched those words into my mind. George Hodgman thinks I have a book.” Gabe Montesanti recalls a pivotal meeting with the editor and author of Bettyville. | Lit Hub

• Omer Friedlander talks to Joshua Henkin about short stories, the power of place, and his debut collection. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• “I no longer wanted to tell myself a story that made me feel comfortable. I wanted the truth.” Ben Westhoff investigates a dear friend’s murder. | Lit Hub

• Annie Sand considers the “shadowy and indistinct” land of mental illness—and its metaphors. | Guernica

• How Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood found understanding in the horoscope readers of her family and the Asian diaspora. | Harper’s Bazaar

• “Voices outside our immediate experience offered a lifeline; I felt like they could help me save someone from drowning when I didn’t know how to swim either.”

• Lauren LeBlanc on reading and passing on I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. | The Atlantic

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• Unsurprisingly, George R.R. Martin does not appreciate being harangued by fans about when he’ll finish The Winds of Winter. | Esquire

• Natalie Bennett, Priscilla Thompson and Kevin Urgiles look at the impact that book bans in prisons have on incarcerated people, and talk to the people working to get books to them regardless. | NBC News

• Tracy Shapley Towley lists some of the books that explore the history and present of censorship. | Book Rio

Also on Lit Hub: Jen Silverman takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire • 8 books set on the jersey shore • Read from Dan Chaon’s latest novel, Sleepwalk