Lit Hub Daily: November 3, 2021

• “People I met were breaking down silos, acting on the idea that it was through reliance on each other that we would most likely find some way out of this.” Sam Quinones on reporting the opioid crisis across America. | Lit Hub

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• How two dictionaries separated across time helped Jan Beatty write her adoption memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir

• The best of independent presses this November, as recommended by indie booksellers. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “Stand underneath the knowledge, the expanse, the just-so-ness of nature.” Yrsa Daley-Ward contemplates how nature helps us heal. | Lit Hub Nature

• A marriage between writers: On the volatile, jealous relationship between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway. | Lit Hub History

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• Meet the groundbreaking women who formed a (national football) league of their own. | Lit Hub Sports

• “It was never that my work lived in the margins of my time around raising a family; I think, rather, that I learned how to entwine life and work so that each informs the other.” Jackie Morris on stealing time to make art. | Lit Hub Art

• James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties, and more rapid-fire book recs from Kyle Lucia Wu. | Book Marks

• Dietrich Kalteis on 1930s bank robbers Ben and Stella Dickson. | CrimeReads

• “Translation had always struck me as unsexy. Or perhaps something more insidious than that.” Mariam Rahmani on being a (reluctant) translator. | Granta

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• “It’s not hard to guess what backers of the ban find so dangerous about a book about civil rights.” Christopher Noxon, whose book was removed from some Virginia schools, speaks out. | Los Angeles Times

• David Kurnick rereads—and reconsiders—Bolaño. | The Paris Review

• Meena Kandasamy discusses translation, decolonization, and the process of writing a long-form first-person essay about women and their experience confronting war. | Words Without Borders

• Sandra Cisneros offers life advice and considers how her writing process has changed over the years. | Bustle

• On the longevity and prominence of Stephen King. | Polygon

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• “We prefer these inventions to the truth of the orphan train movement, which was, in the end, a social-engineering experiment that preyed on some of our most vulnerable.” Kristen Martin considers the “orphan train” genre. | Lapham’s Quarterly

Also on Lit Hub: Jo Wimpenny on the consequences of Aesop’s animal depictions • A poem from Jim Moore’s new collection • Read from Tom Mccarthy’s latest novel, The Making of Incarnation