Lit Hub Daily: October 11, 2022

• Lydia Millet talks to Jane Ciabattari about our fascination with dinosaurs,  imaginary boundaries, and her new novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• Maya Phillips muses on Black Panther, Luke Cage, and the responsibility of Black superheroes (and their creators). | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “My empty coffers have fed me the very stuff of which stories are made.” Deborah E. Kennedy on the narrative arc created by a lack of money. | Lit Hub

• Lisa Yaszek delves into the feminist history of science fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “It could have been a book of terrible stories. Or it could have been a book of funny stories. And instead it’s both.” Cecilia Gentili on growing up trans in 1970s Argentina. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• Reine Arcache Melvin looks to Italo Calvino, Marguerite Duras, and Greek mythology to consider how to write about sex and violence. | Lit Hub Craft

• This month’s LIT HUB ASKS: 5 WRITERS, 7 QUESTIONS, NO WRONG ANSWERS features Ross Gay, Elizabeth Strout, Erin Keane, David Moscow, and Christine Sneed. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Peter Stothard recommends five favorite books on ancient Rome. | The Wall Street Journal

• Rose Higham-Stainton delves into the tradition of epistolary writing and the correspondence between sisters Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer. | LARB

• Christine Smallwood profiles Lydia Millet: “It’s really important to live in a world where not everything is known.” | The New York Times Magazine

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• “I will always love the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable.” An interview with Watchmen author Alan Moore. | The Guardian

• Alyssa Battistoni considers Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work, Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back, and the politics of work in an age of automation and deindustrialization. | The Nation

• “After Craig filled the tank, a young man, wrapped in a sleeping bag and dripping wet, politely asked for a ride to Iowa City.” Ted Geltner on the car crash that inspired a Denis Johnson story. | The New Yorker

Also on Lit Hub: Michelle Webster-Hein on the complementary pursuits of writing and homesteading • What the booksellers are reading at Milwaukee’s Boswell Book Company • Read from Leonard Cohen’s novel and stories, A Ballet of Lepers