Lit Hub Daily: October 23, 2018

TODAY: In 1865, scientific historian and nature writer Neltje Blanchan, who published several books on wildflowers and birds, is born.
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• Veronica Scott Esposito on the catastrophic consequences of trans erasure. | Lit Hub
• Not only does Edward Carey write the characters in his novel, he also renders them in wood, wax, graphite, and clay. | Lit Hub
• Get this one down to ten was particularly hard: the books that defined the 1960s. | Lit Hub
• “Guns are apparently a lot like baseball cards.” RJ Young visits the dark heart of an American gun show to buy his very first gun. | Lit Hub
• The One Where Homophobia and Representation Coexisted: On Friends and the slow mainstreaming of gay life on TV. | Lit Hub
• “We are reminded that the great writer and Nobel laureate was also a human being.” On the vulnerable private writings of Ernest Hemingway. | Lit Hub
• Nigerian-Indian writer Kanchana Ugbabe talks to Matt Grant about being a Writer at Risk, working in New York City. | Lit Hub
• Marion Winik, the author of The Baltimore Book of the Dead, spoke to Jane Ciabattari about five books of the dead. | Book Marks
• Crime writer Jeff Abbott on the pain of losing his library to a house fire, the kindness of friends in rebuilding it, and tips on how to preserve the longevity of our own collections. | CrimeReads
• “I want to be seen as someone who is always concerned with making space for everyone to play their part”: a profile of the polymathic Eve Ewing. | The New York Times
• Jeff Jackson offers seven contenders for the Great American Rock and Roll Novel. | Electric Lit
• “The bank is gone, and so, too, the old Academy Cinema, which was once the Antient Concert Rooms, where Joyce sang.” Take the Colm Tóibín tour of Dublin from the comfort of your home. | Irish Times
• “Mama Bunny, Mama Robin and Mama Bear seem destined to stand on the doorstep waving handkerchiefs in their husbands’ dust.” On the trouble with parents in children’s books. | The Washington Post
• “I wanted to be working and creating relationships with women. I’m drawn to the sort of transgressiveness that often seems more available to women.” On Danielle Dutton and the creation of Dorothy, a Publishing Project. | LARB
• Godsend author John Wray on radicalization, the fascism of social media, and playing detective in Afghanistan. | The Paris Review
• Five female Japanese authors you can (and should!) read in English. | Metropolis Japan

Also on Lit Hub: The psychiatrist who tried to save Sylvia Plath • Read a story from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s new collection Friday Black.

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