Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2020

• Looking to break free from the news cycle? Paulette Jiles recommends a little post-apocalyptic sci-fi escapism. | Lit Hub
• “If you ever dare to do reality television, you’d best have a plan on how to maximize the moment.” Michael Arceneaux on what exposure really means. | Lit Hub
• Cherokee citizens are writing themselves into the future: Erika Wurth on the literature of Native sovereignty. | Lit Hub Politics
• “To elevate my gaze above immediate concerns.” David Searcy looks to the stars under lockdown. | Lit Hub
• ON THE VBC: On Joining Conversation, part two of a roundtable on contemporary Native American literature · Samantha Irby talks writing for TV and flirting via mixtape, on Sheltering · On Rekindled, Amy Meyerson and  Vanessa Hua discuss family secrets and non-traditional mysteries. | Lit Hub
• Tim McGrath on the year that changed James Monroe’s legacy forever. | Lit Hub History
• Geek Love, The Velveteen Rabbit, The House on Mango Street, and more rapid-fire book recs from Kali Fajardo-Anstine. | Book Marks
• “I want to see myself in these films—and I do.” Karen Stefano looks at how Hollywood’s women in criminal justice measure up to their real-life counterparts. | CrimeReads
• “The problem is not with information per se, but with our individual capacities to filter and assess it.” On data literacy, climate change, and the Covid-19 “infowhelm.” | NYRB
• “There’s something therapeutic right now about watching something that has the freedom to fly around, and happens to be here in this particular moment.” Jenny Odell on stillness and attention (even and especially mid-pandemic). | The Creative Independent
• Michael McClure, the Beat Generation poet who helped launch the San Francisco Renaissance, died Monday at 87. | Datebook
• A look back at how FDR and the Works Progress Administration supported writers during the Great Depression. | Los Angeles Times
• Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews, a less than six-month-old indie bookstore in North Carolina that is fighting to survive the pandemic, has been a bright light for Chapel Hill’s Latino community. | NBC
• Is breakfast the most literary meal of the day? Discuss. | The New York Times
• Here’s what Bernardine Evaristo, Ocean Vuong, and others are reading in social isolation. | Washington Post

Also on Lit Hub: Megan Margulies on finding space for art in dark times • Bringing together kaleidoscopic plots: A reading list from Anna Solomon • Read an excerpt from Amy Jo Burns’ debut novel Shiner.