Lit Hub Daily: November 9, 2022

• Kris Jansma on working the polls and having long (bipartisan) conversations about literature with his fellow Election Inspectors. | Lit Hub Politics

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• Read rapid-fire interviews with the National Book Award finalists. | Lit Hub

• “Now we have conversations where we can’t remember what’s in the book and what’s in the script.” At the inaugural Refocus Film Festival, Camille DeAngelis and David Kajganich discuss adapting Bones and All. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Why you should write a novel with friends (yes, really!). | Lit Hub Craft & Advice

• Hugh Bonneville reflects on his Downton Abbey castmate Maggie Smith: “Show weakness or doubt and she would eat them for breakfast.” | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• What’s next after you’ve achieved your writing dreams? Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, has some thoughts. | Lit Hub

• Why write about women who kill? Alia Trabucco Zerán digs in. | Lit Hub

• “As in all imaginative literature—all fiction, perhaps—the story represents at once the persistence of childhood and a memorial to its loss.” Andrea Long Chu on The Velveteen Rabbit. | Vulture

• Carolina A. Miranda explores a Joan Didion-inspired art exhibit at the Hammer Museum: “It is not composed of vitrines bursting with manuscripts. Nor are there old ashtrays or a favored typewriter.” | Los Angeles Times

• Rapid-fire book recs from N.K. Jemisin. | ELLE

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• “It was a way I could get a word in: to write it down.” Hilton Als and Isabella Vega on the nature of desire, vulnerability, and sentimentality. | Catapult

• This NaNoWriMo, why not write a really bad novel? | Slate

• “If moralizing is now misplaced in literature, what space is there to write about imperiled people, except to set them up as subjects for recreational grieving?” Nazish Brohi reflects on storytelling and the limits of empathy. | Guernica

• Brian O’Hare recommends books that take aim at the myth of the American hero. | Electric Literature

• Christopher Wiggins reports on the LGBTQ+ books that a school district near Milwaukee has pulled from its bookshelves. | The Advocate

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Also on Lit Hub: Marking the gravesite of Assia Wevill and Shura Hughes • New poetry from Jennifer S. Cheng • Read from Edward Delaney’s latest novel, The Acrobat