Lit Hub Daily: November 8, 2021

• After 22 years, The Best American Travel Writing is no more. Thomas Swick wonders what the ending says about travel writing—and about America. | Lit Hub Travel

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• Happy University Press Week! Here are 80 UP books to celebrate. | Lit Hub

• “The first thing Tony ever said to me was, ‘You’re the new writer. Let me tell you something. You ever write the script where I die, first I die, then you die.’” Inside the writers’ room of The Sopranos. | Lit Hub TV

• Creative problem-solving in San Quentin: The creators of Ear Hustle shares the origins of the first-ever global podcast produced within a prison. | Lit Hub

• “The young H.G. Wells remained wretched, knowing that his life was being wasted as he spent day after day folding and unfolding bales of cloth.” On the humble beginnings of a sci-fi pioneer. | Lit Hub Biography

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• Climate activist Vanessa Nakate considers how editorial decisions can exclude entire continents from a crucial conversation. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Danielle Evans talks Mrs. Dalloway, Black vaudeville, and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand. | Book Marks 

• “We’re still not done connecting the natural world to the political world.” Rebecca Solnit talks to Helen Rosner about Orwell, pleasure, and resistance. | The New Yorker

• Some writing advice from Susan Orlean: cultivate the art of noticing. | Medium

• “I have no desire to absolve. It is a weight to always be asked to absolve people who you know are maintaining inequality.” Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses the 1619 Project, anti-CRT crusades, and more. | Vanity Fair

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• These books explore the beauty and complications of the rural queer experience. | Book Riot

• Elif Shafak describes the authors that made her want to be a writer and what she’s reading now. | The Guardian

• “You don’t stop being a person when you become a mom.” Rachel Yoder on the experience of writing about motherhood. | The Creative Independent

• “There’s a lot you can do on the internet, conceit-wise, that you can’t pull off quite the same way on paper.” Calvin Kasulke breaks down how he set a novel in Slack. | Counter Craft

Also on Lit Hub: Eric Johnson on the concept of choice architecture • How white feminists too often perpetuate racism • Read from Klara Hveberg’s newly translated novel, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine (tr. Alison McCullough)