Lit Hub Daily: October 27, 2022

• “Collapsing the firmly domestic housewife and the canonical, tortured author into the same human vessel requires some mental finagling.” Cooking with Sylvia Plath through her posthumously published journals. | Lit Hub Food

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• Turns out, indie booksellers are excellent conspirators when it comes to planning a wedding proposal. | Lit Hub Bookstores

• …But if it’s doomed sapphic love you’re looking for, Dorothea has book recommendations (by request, of course). | Lit Hub Life Advice for Book Lovers

• Karon Liu on food writing, dumplings, and the melting pot of Toronto. | Lit Hub

• Laura Kaplan recounts how members of the Jane Collective, a pre-Roe underground feminist abortion service, took up “the tools of [their] own liberation” and learned to perform abortions themselves. | Lit Hub Politics

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• Bill McKibben on the power of climate crisis posters: “Art is at this point as necessary as science in the battle for the future.” | Lit Hub Climate Change

• What Ross Gay is reading now and next, from The Violence of the Green Revolution to The Unwritten Book. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• Kavita Das offers advice for writing ethically about social issues. | Lit Hub Craft

• What’s better than watching a horror movie? Reading a book about watching horror movies! | CrimeReads

• Ron Charles on Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, Molly Young on the novels of Philip K. Dick, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

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• Five writers share their memories of Mike Davis. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “We’re not going to bring things back to the way they were. That falls to a higher power.” Annie Proulx on environmental writing and the realities of climate change. | Vogue

• “His writing surges off the page irresistibly, exciting and compelling in equal measure.” Jack Hamilton shares his appreciation of the late Mike Davis’s writing. | Slate

• Siddhartha Deb considers the haunting novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah. | The New Republic

• How did Halloween become a commercial holiday in America? | JSTOR Daily

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• Elif Shafak offers a literary syllabus for Istanbul. | The New York Times

• Toni Morrison will finally be on a US stamp in 2023. | The Hub

Also on Lit Hub: How the California Gold Rush destroyed whatever peace existed in the American West • How rock and roll came to Sioux Falls, Iowa • Read from Kevin Chen’s newly translated novel, Ghost Town (tr. Darryl Sterk)