Lit Hub Daily: October 19, 2018

• Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, and the great punk-poetry collision of 1970s New York. | Lit Hub
• How W.G. Sebald, Ann Beattie, and Siri Hustvedt capture the “indelible strangeness” of being a child. | Lit Hub
• Seismic cultural shifts all around: 10 books that defined the 1940s. | Lit Hub
• “Identifying the cause of a disease is like looking for the motive for a crime.” Surgeon and writer Arnold van de Laar on the doctor as detective. | Lit Hub
• María Sonia Cristoff on night-flying in Patagonia, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and the anxiety of the pilot on attempting to land a plane. | Lit Hub
• The latest edition of our series of new poetry by indigenous women, curated by newly minted MacArthur fellow Natalie Diaz. | Lit Hub
• Anthea Bell, translator of Sebald, Kafka, and the Asterix comics, among others, has died at 82. | Lit Hub
• “Finally, as the first trace of dawn peeked through a window, he accepted the solemn reality that it was time for the killing.” Read an exclusive excerpt from John Grisham’s new legal thriller, The Reckoning. | CrimeReads
• Barbara Kingsolver, Kiese Laymon, Frederick Douglass, and Babe Ruth all feature among our Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• Truth or honest reckoning? Kiese Laymon talks teaching, race, and the memoir he wrote for his mother. | Electric Lit
• The queen of all scammers: biographer turned literary forger Lee Israel gets a film treatment starring Melissa McCarthy | Refinery29
• Raphael Kadushin, the longtime editor of LGBTQ titles at University of Wisconsin Press, has stepped down after nearly three decades. | Isthmus
• The shortlst for the TS Eliot prize has been announced. | The Guardian
• “Only a black woman could have written something so glaring and unforgiving.” On the magnified reality of Octavia Butler’s novels. | Syfy Wire
• On Flush, Virginia Woolf’s little-known biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s foppish cocker spaniel. | The Paris Review
• “Her courage is sewn into her very bones. When the violence of the world knocks at her door, she must fight.” Sabaa Tahir on why Katniss Everdeen, 10 years later, is still her hero. | The New York Times

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