Lit Hub Daily: November 10, 2022

TODAY: In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen’s New Fairy Tales (Nye Eventyr), including “The Ugly Duckling” (“Den grimme ælling”), is published. 

• “Our teeth tell stories about us, about the way that we have lived, about where we come from, about our habits, our health, and status.” Angelique Stevens muses on dentistry, poverty, and inequality. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• In this week’s Life Advice for Book Lovers, Dorothea recommends books for sleepy commutes and short attention spans. | Lit Hub

• “I remember the day when pie became my savior.” Amy Wallen on the endlessness of novel writing and the joys of… pie-crastination. | Lit Hub Food

• Tough to write and tougher to read: Onyi Nwabineli shares what she’s learned about writing grief in fiction. | Lit Hub

• Live at the Red Ink Series, a conversation about avoidance among Sarah Thankam Mathews, Elissa Bassist, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Sari Botton, and Kayla Maiuri. | Lit Hub Roundtable

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• Rebecca Ackermann on finding her way back to writing by tuning into comedy podcasts. | Lit Hub Humor

• Sarah Fawn Montgomery considers what mirrors really tell us. | Lit Hub

• R.O. Kwon considers Dictee, displaced language, and literary ancestors: “It’s painful to think of what else Cha would have done if her life hadn’t been curtailed.” | The New Yorker

• “I find myself thinking about Joe Brainard whenever I listen to ‘All Too Well.’” JoAnna Novak on the power of writing in the present tense. | The Paris Review

• “Why do living artists subsist on part-time gigs while dead ones become immersive money-printing machines for corporate enterprise?” Abbey Fenbert on Van Gogh and the exploitation of artistic labor. | Catapult

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• Tana French presents a reading list for your travels through Dublin. | The New York Times

• “I never want to publish a book for commercial reasons. I think of publishing as an intellectual project.” How Jacques Testard made Fitzcarraldo a literary powerhouse. | The New Statesman

• Stephanie McCarter discusses her approach to translating the sexual violence of classical poetry. | The Washington Post

• Dimitri Nasrallah grapples with John Irving’s “madcap, endearing, and at times implausible fiction.” | The Walrus

Also on Lit Hub: Sandra Simonds on piecing together poetic puzzles • Two poems by Du Fu • Read from Manuel Rivas’s newly translated novel, The Last Days of Terranova (tr. Jacob Rogers)

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