Lit Hub Daily: October 14, 2022

TODAY: In 1893, British poet May Wedderburn Cannan is born.    

• Jacqueline Woodson, Helen Phillips, and more contemporary writers reflect on 75 years of Goodnight Moon. | Lit Hub

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• “I still have to run, no matter how hard I try to choose synonyms, or search for euphemisms or sophisticated wordings to avoid the word refugee.” A letter from Ukrainian writer and poet Kateryna Babkina (tr. Hanna Leliv). | Lit Hub Ukraine

• The Middle Ages, previously “ceded to bloodthirsty fantasists who aren’t even telling Medieval stories,” have found a new champion in… Lena Dunham. Ryan Coleman reviews her latest film, Catherine Called Birdy. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Mairead Small Staid muses on Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, and “the roiling mess” of romantic love. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Leonard Cohen’s A Ballet of Lepers, Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs, and Andrew Miller’s The Slowworm’s Song all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

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• A 1968 movie about psychedelic politics and killing the old still has the power to disturb, decades later. From Michael Gonzales. | CrimeReads

• “Maybe we need a Disappearing Libraries Week.” Katha Pollitt on school libraries’ need for more support. | The Nation

• “Our fates are merely two drops in an ocean filled with stories of war, shattered families, and displacement.” Kurdish activists Ala Riani and Rezan Labady address the story of Iranian Kurds. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Fatimah Ashgar on poetry, directing, and being daring: “What happens when individuals actually listen to their bodies rather than impose their own wills over it?” | PEN America

• “Publishing had managed to turn its terminal failure into a market opportunity.” Ismail Muhammad on contemporary Black literature and the representation trap. | The New York Times Magazine

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• Five debut authors over 50 share their stories. | Poets & Writers

• Attention, writers! A round-up of fall/winter 2022-2023 fellowships and residencies to apply to. | BOMB

• Angela Haupt explores the appeal of Colleen Hoover’s novels—and their mental health implications. | TIME

Also on Lit Hub: Joy Harjo on listening and writing with intention • On The Image Book and the legacy of Jean-Luc Godard • Read Emrys Donaldson’s story from the new anthology Queer Little Nightmares

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