Lit Hub Daily: November 29, 2021

• “These men are not merely passively ‘compromised’ but aggressively compromising, in ways that our misogynistic culture obscures.” Mary K. Holland considers David Foster Wallace scholarship after #MeToo. | Lit Hub

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• Francine Prose on encountering literary works that made her think, Writers can do that? | Lit Hub Criticism

• “If I’d written a personal essay about my financial situation, I could have qualified for a scholarship to my own conference.” Leigh Stein on life as a working writer and the challenges of forming an alternative to AWP. | Lit Hub

• A decade after Egypt’s Tahrir Square erupted in protest, Talya Zax asks how the Arab Spring changed fiction. | Lit Hub Politics

• “Writing is a lot easier than getting up onstage and singing and dancing, I’ll tell you that.” Mel Brooks discusses becoming a memoirist at 95. | The New Yorker

• These Indigenous horror authors are using speculative fiction to revitalize traditional stories. | Bitch Media

• “I wanted to set it in the bookstore because I felt like that’s a kind of haunted space, by definition.” Louise Erdrich on her new novel and our country’s unease with its genocidal origins. | NPR Code Switch

• How historically accurate is the Old Testament? | Smithsonian Magazine

• “What should my generation of activists preserve from earlier stages of the movement, and what should we discard?” Megan Stephan on feminist memoirs. | Public Books

• Sara Harowitz considers the weight of a name. | Hazlitt 

Also on Lit Hub: Mark Scarbrough on finally finding an authentic voice • Mirion Malle in conversation with Sophie Yanow • Read from Mona Arshi’s hybrid novel, Somebody Loves You