Lit Hub Daily: November 28, 2023

• On the rise and fall of Borders Books: “The company forgot that selling books is not the same as selling sausage or socks.” | Lit Hub

• Women think about the Roman Empire, too: Emma Southon calls for a women’s history of Ancient Rome. | Lit Hub History

• 15 new books you don’t want to miss. | The Hub

• Charles Scribner III looks back at his family’s multigenerational history of publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald. | Lit Hub

• “It was not natural to watch the deliberate breaking of a human being and do nothing.” What really happened between Coppola and Sheen in that hotel room during the filming of Apocalypse Now. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Financial anxiety, hybrid learning, the end of the academic bubble: Kate Dwyer considers the future of the realist campus novel. | Esquire

• Stacy Y. China looks at how Cave Canem has nurtured generations of Black poets. | The New York Times

• “Woolf’s particular magic created a powerful touchstone that captured dimensions of trans experience, even though she never lived these herself.” Julia Sirmons considers three adaptations of Orlando. | LARB

• “In Marienbad we were relieved from the feeling that we’d missed a heyday—we did, but it doesn’t matter.” Lauren Oyler visits a wellness destination. | Granta

• An argument for abolishing literary genres. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: The lived poetry of the late James Tate • What prehistoric possessions tell us about ourselves • Read from Nita Prose’s latest novel, The Mystery Guest