Lit Hub Daily: May 8, 2023

• “Everyone was afraid of what the anti-Palestinians would do. Everyone was afraid of what the Palestinians might say. Everyone was afraid of everyone.” Shalom Auslander attends the Adelaide Writers’ Festival. | Lit Hub

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• What Shakespeare can teach us about writing horror. | Lit Hub

• “Being Black is not a monolithic experience.” Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu on navigating American racism as an African immigrant. | Lit Hub

• The allure of true people: Buzzy Jackson recounts writing (a novel) about Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter during WWII. | Lit Hub

• On Agatha Christie’s enduring legacy in the literary zeitgeist. | CrimeReads

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• “I learned to see the elegy as a form of positive, communal remembrance. It’s not really a poem of grief so much as a poem of endurance.” An interview with Paisley Rekdal. | Poets.org

• “To tell stories, you need storytellers. But the studios don’t necessarily see it that way.” A look back at the impact of the 2007 writers’ strike. | The Ringer

• Historian Ned Blackhawk is recalibrating the way Americans understand Native history. | The Guardian

• “It is a protest against a proposed totalitarian takeover of a democracy, let’s not call it anything else.” Margaret Atwood weighs in on recent protests in Israel against so-called reforms to the judiciary. | The Times of Israel

• A Chinese man has built a bookstore on top of a mountain. And yes, he is a poet. | South China Morning Post

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• A look back at the Pulitzer Prize-winners for fiction in the 21st century. | The Hub

Also on Lit Hub: Matthew Cheney in conversation with Jeff VanderMeer • Nasser Al-Dhafiri on building and rebuilding his personal library • Read an excerpt from Brinda Charry’s latest novel, The East Indian