Lit Hub Daily: May 3, 2022

TODAY: In 1915, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, soldier, surgeon, artist, and poet, writes “In Flanders Fields.” 

• “No mood can be the wrong mood, no landscape can be the wrong landscape, as no music can be the wrong music.” Yiyun Li on the solaces (and limits) of music. | Lit Hub Music

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• 25 new books to start your May off right. | The Hub

• When Anna Wintour wore Prada to an early screening of The Devil Wears Prada. | Lit Hub Biography

• What does an artist’s wardrobe say about their work? | Lit Hub Style

• Steve Almond urges novelists to “heed those events and memories that haunt them most profoundly.” | Lit Hub Craft

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• Hernan Diaz talks to Jane Ciabattari about his new novel, Trust, and the many things he’s learned from Borges. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Shelby Van Pelt considers an unlikely muse: the sardonic octopus living rent-free in her head. | Lit Hub Craft

• A new exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum pays homage to the groundbreaking, iconic book covers of Bascove. | Lit Hub Design

• Lost in the subject matter: Gerald Murnane rereads his first novel, Tamarisk Road, nearly 50 years later. | Lit Hub

• Alexandra Alter talks to Maia Kobabe, whose graphic memoir Gender Queer was the most banned book in the country last year. | The New York Times

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• “I go to Veracruz and listen to what people are saying. There are a million things worth writing based on that.” Max Pearl profiles Fernanda Melchor. | Vulture

• Hundreds of libraries across the country are offering free seeds and gardening education to help alleviate food insecurity. | Eater

• “For all his suspicion of collective causes, Miłosz combined self-creation with solidarity.” Joy Neumeyer reconsiders Czesław Miłosz. | The Baffler

• Kasra Lang on what makes Dalí’s painting Christ of Saint John of the Cross so unsettling. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “I think it’s time for me to get off this stage.” Don Winslow on why he’s decided to retire from writing and focus on advocacy work. | PBS NewsHour Weekend

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• The Nashville Public Library has a new library card with the message “I read banned books,” part of a campaign to promote reading and democracy. | Axios

Also on Lit Hub: A Shakespearean study guide for The Northman • Three poems by N. Scott Momaday, from Dream Drawings • Read from John Waters’s latest novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

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