Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2021

TODAY: In 1914, Daniel J. Boorstin, the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress, is born.  

• Limes for Amy March: Jean Huang considers the evolving literary and cultural history of citrus. | Lit Hub History

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• “For the dutiful writer, a notebook is the best kind of camera.” Roy Peter Clark’s advice for writing cinematically. | Lit Hub Craft

• The literary film and TV you should stream in October features a remake of a legendarily bad adaptation, Claudia Llosa’s take on Samanta Scweblin’s Fever Dream, and the best Mr. Darcy of all time. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Indie booksellers recommend their favorite new titles from indie presses this September and October. | Lit Hub

• Bruce Jones traces how the Zanzibari coast became famous… for modern-day pirates. | Lit Hub

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• Fire Lyte recommends witchy books for spooky season. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle, and Lauren Groff’s Matrix all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. | Book Marks

• Celia Mattson recommends 31 horror films about writing, reading, and the business of books. | CrimeReads

• “If characters are being created for illustrative purposes or representative purposes, you’re kind of fucked.” Jonathan Franzen and Merve Emre in conversation. | Vulture

• On the double standards imposed upon creators of color and the privilege of mediocrity, which is “is reserved for the few, and those mostly white, male, and straight.” | T Magazine

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• Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, discusses her new memoir and finding recognition in Maya Angelou. | NPR 

• An audiovisual translator discusses the process of creating subtitles and dubs for TV and films. | Zócalo Public Square

• Why Banned Books Week should include conversations about prison censorship. | The Mary Sue

• Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. Douglas on Black scholarship and why “structural racism and capitalist imperialism are everywhere, including the institutional spaces intended to nurture their critique.” | Boston Review

• Jaime Herndon asks what makes up the children’s canon of literature. | Book Riot

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Also on Lit Hub: The theory of (artistic) relativity, illustrated • A poem by Ana Castillo (tr. Sara Solaimani with Ana Castillo) • Read from adrienne maree brown’s debut novella, Grievers 

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