Lit Hub Daily: November 22, 2023

• “To visit Vonnegut’s grave in Indianapolis is far harder than it is to visit Thurber’s in Columbus for one simple reason: he’s not there.” Visiting the city where Kurt Vonnegut lived (but was not laid to rest). | Lit Hub

• “Then my friend in Nablus had a dream…” Read new poetry by Fady Joudah.| Lit Hub Poetry

• One night at Mable Peabody’s, the “queer heart of Texas.” | Lit Hub

• Maestro, writes Frank Falisi, might be more about Bradley Cooper than it is about Leonard Bernstein. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• John Vaillant, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather, discusses our climate future. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• “If I let these people down, who is going to speak out for them? Who’s going to tell the world their stories?” Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed on what it’s like to report from Gaza. | The Nation

• Chloé Cooper Jones profiles Lana Del Rey. | Harper’s Bazaar

• “All of these examples are fake, but can stand for the ones I made, the bedbugs I released into the linguistic furniture. It was my first attempt at writing fiction.” Ben Lerner on some edits he made to Wikipedia. | Harper’s

• Anne Lamott considers the beauty in not knowing. | The Washington Post

• “[I]n the opinion of teen-age me there is only one real event in our lives and it occurred on the sixteenth of April, 1993, when I fell thirty feet from my bedroom window.” Zadie Smith tells the story of a fall. | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: Karen Tongson on Gilmore Girls as “normporn” • How to process grief and loss through storytelling • Amy Kurzweil on text, image, AI, and artistic translation