Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2022

TODAY: In 2009, Hilary Mantel is awarded the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall.   

• “Cheever drank. Roth womanized. My grandfather wrote quietly in his office for 60 years.” Alison Fairbrother on learning lessons—in writing and life—from her grandfather, E.L. Doctorow. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Nina Totenberg reflects on her long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of “small acts of thoughtfulness.” | Lit Hub Biography

• Literary dispatches from the New York Film Festival, featuring White Noise, a monologuing Sophia Tolstoy, and more. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Such deprivation tears at your soul.” Ahed Tamimi on crossing occupation lines as a Palestinian. | Lit Hub Politics

• Jacques Pépin on the foundational task of a young Parisian chef: mastering the many ways to cook a chicken. | Lit Hub Food

• Lauren Acampora recommends nine novels of art and seduction. | Lit Hub

• We’ll drink to that: Two cocktails for your next literary happy hour. | Lit Hub

• Leslie Jamison on a bear attack memoir, Alex Chee on a portrait of queerness and depression, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Why is everybody reading Dracula in serialized installments right now? | The New York Times

• “Artists are perennially interesting to me because they’re often obsessives, and obsessives are my favorite kind of characters.” Lauren Acampora on art and authenticity. | The Millions

• Remembering Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet and novelist who wrote about “anything and everything from Ancient Egyptian mythology to folk magic, from Gnosticism to the Arabic language.” | JSTOR Daily

• “Writing takes actual physical stamina. It is not some delicate thing that happens up in the mind and nowhere else.” Summer Brennan considers Deborah Levy’s thoughts on writing and wisdom. | A Writer’s Notebook

• Alex Shephard on five writers who probably won’t win the Nobel Prize this year (but who you should read anyway). | The Atlantic

• The world’s most valuable novel (by Jane Austen, duh) will go on display at Chawtown House, in Hampshire, beginning in early 2023. | The Hub

Also on Lit Hub: Heidi Seaborn on the controversial adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel • Ambitious women in literature: novels that find joy in triumph and destruction • Read from Herve Guibert’s newly translated novel, My Manservant and Me (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman)

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