Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2022

• Unforgivably criminalized: Caroline Godard on Happening, the film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir of her illegal, life-threatening abortion. | Lit Hub Film

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• “My grandmother and O’Keeffe were two different types of women… What I understand now is that they are not mutually exclusive personas.” Megan Mayhew Bergman on landscape and memory in Chatham, Virginia. | Lit Hub

• A plea to give queer stories happy endings—and to fight back against LGBTQ+ book bans. | Lit Hub

• Lauren McBrayer reflects on writing herself out of a life that no longer felt like her own. | Lit Hub

• Inside the tumultuous line of succession at a post­-Jobs Apple. | Lit Hub Tech

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• “Here he would be—his footprint, his heritage. Here he would still somehow exist.” Karen Winn searches for her father’s ghost in Hungary. | Lit Hub Memoir

• THE ANNOTATED NIGHTSTAND: What Renee Gladman is reading now and next, from The Undercurrents to Hilma af Klint. | Lit Hub

• Courtney Maum recommends genre-defying “memoirs with benefits.” | Lit Hub

• Hannah Natanson dives into the “banned book clubs” that teenagers are creating to resist book-banning policies. | The Washington Post

• Why don’t new revelations in political books come out sooner? | Business Insider

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• “Hope without action is willful denial.” Rebecca Scherm on the climate crisis and writing about the near future. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “In the stimulating communication with himself, Montaigne relishes self-contradiction. He seems not to foresee his next move.” Victor Brombert on the lessons of Montaigne. | The Hudson Review

• Gerald Horne considers the continuing relevance of Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. | The Nation 

• “Serious money has the ability to distort reality. Given enough mass, it will ripple.” Hernan Diaz discusses his new novel. | Vanity Fair

Also on Lit Hub: Why we turn to myths to untangle old problems • Does “because i said so” ever really work? • Read from Mieko Kawakami’s newly translated novel, All the Lovers in the Night (tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd)