Lit Hub Daily: October 26, 2023

• “I feel we are in the end of our days.” Read “Life Line to Gaza,” a poem by Ru Freeman. | Lit Hub Poetry

• What K-Ming Chang is reading now and next, from Thérèse and Isabelle to Wound. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• On George Harrison’s first shag, a “formal initiation” in the red-light district… with the rest of the Beatles nearby. | Lit Hub Biography

• “Everything I saw in the media portrayed me as undesirable.” Actor Simu Liu and filmmaker Alice Wu discuss the rise of the Asian American romantic comedy. | Lit Hub Film

• Holly Ringland goes behind the scenes of the adaptation of her novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “It’s nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy for and real outrage on behalf of Spears.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Going deep on “literary It Girls.” | Nylon

• “Good morning, Gaza. Get up.” Fady Joudah considers Mahmoud Darwish’s untranslatable elegy “The Final Meeting in Rome.” | The Baffler

• David Wallace Wells reports on Canada’s year of endless wildfires. | New York Times Magazine

• “While it’s become banal to observe that online life is fully enmeshed with the rest of the world, an imaginary curtain separates online writing from the rest of US literature. It’s time to take that curtain down.” Megan Marz reflects on 30 years of internet writing. | Longreads

• Facing backlash, Scholastic has said it will no longer separate titles dealing with race, gender, and sexuality in its book fair offerings. | NPR

Also on Lit Hub: Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones on Puerto Rican literature • Jeremy Cooper on fact, fiction, and film • Read from Margarita García Robayo’s newly translated novel, The Delivery (tr. Megan McDowell)