Lit Hub Daily: November 28, 2022

• “Every Saturday, from ten to noon, I pretend to be a bull.” Maryse Meijer on training to be a bullfighter (who will never fight bulls), in the latest installment of When I’m Not Writing, a series about writers and their hobbies. | Lit Hub

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• Paul Lafargue recounts “the most magnificent funeral of the century”—Victor Hugo’s. | Lit Hub History

• Emma Staffaroni considers Women Talking, post-MeToo literature, and if Sarah Polley’s forthcoming adaptation will be able to capture Miriam Toews’s feat of storytelling. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Jim Rementer talks to Margie Cook about preserving the Lenape language. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• As she moves from NYC to Missoula to LA, A. Cerisse Cohen finds comfort in Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. | Lit Hub Food

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• Read an excerpt from Lu Xun’s experimental prose collection Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, which translator Eileen J. Cheng calls “a testament to Lu Xun’s radical hope and enduring quest to find beauty and meaning in a cruel and unjust world.” | Lit Hub Translation

• Laila Lalami recommends books that capture Tangier. | The New York Times

• A nook of one’s own: Tips for creating a cozy reading space. | The Irish Times

• “The goal is to not only inform but to also capture who the deceased really was.” Meg Dalton on what obituaries can teach us about writing and living. | Catapult

• Shiva Akhavan Rad and Elena Ferrante discuss the fight for women’s equality in Iran. | The Guardian

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• Christopher Soto considers the work of the late “bawdy Latina lesbian rebel poet” tatiana de la tierra. | Los Angeles Times

• Read “The Generation,” a new short story by Hernan Diaz. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: How dogs explore the world through smell • Tracing Bong Joon Ho’s rise to fame, from secret government blacklist to making Oscars history • Read from Li Zi Shu’s newly translated novel, The Age of Goodbyes (tr. YZ Chin)