Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2019

• How to resist late-stage capitalism—and other lessons from Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White’s modern classic of radical decency. | Lit Hub
• John Edgar Wideman on the impassable divides of the prison visiting room. | Lit Hub
• “That languor is, at present, typically debased does not mean it is beyond recuperation.” Charlie Tyson on the philosophical implications of a world with less work. | Lit Hub
• “Of course I tipped him—extra, in fact. You don’t want the garage attendant going behind your back saying that Hitler stiffed him.” John Hodgman on the perils of (sometimes) looking like Hitler. | Lit Hub
• There’s no such thing as a stupid question, but here are a bunch very strange ones, courtesy of the infinitely patient staff of the New York Public Library. | Lit Hub
• In pursuit of the elusive Spanish Forger: Lydia Pyne on one of the great art criminals of all time. | Lit Hub
• Miriam Toews’ Women Talking, Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and more rapid fire book recs from R.O. Kwon. | Book Marks
• Alert: soon you will be able to read Patricia Highsmith’s diaries. (!!!) | The New York Times
• “What the books share is a sense of abiding fear—fear that is infrastructural and architectural.” On the defining horror of #MeToo stories. | The Atlantic
• “Jack Keroac was my boyfriend then, and I was very young.” Joyce Johnson describes what followed the publication of On the Road. | New York Review of Books
• On the “continental pretensions” of Call Me By Your Name’s literary world. | The Nation
• Carrie Fisher’s ex-husband and daughter have dismissed Sheila Weller’s upcoming biography of the actress as “unauthorized.” | Los Angeles Times
• It seems like Kathryn Hahn was the perfect candidate to play Mrs. Fletcher, the protagonist of the HBO miniseries based on Tom Perrotta’s novel. | The Ringer
• The Astro Poets recommend perfumes based on your Zodiac sign (is a very 2019 statement). | Vanity Fair

Also on Lit Hub: If you think there’s a lot of trash on Earth, we regret to inform you that humans have managed to float 6,000 tons of junk into outer space • This Mexico City artist created an Instagram-based library • Read an excerpt from Meghan Tifft’s new novel, From Hell to Breakfast.