Lit Hub Daily: September 2, 2020

• She hoped that children who played her game would grow up understanding the injustice of our economic system.” Eula Biss on the anticapitalist origins of Monopoly. | Lit Hub
• “The book is a NOVEL and that means it is full of lies by definition.” It’s time for some one-star Amazon reviews of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. | Lit Hub
• Inside the intricate translation process for a Haruki Murakami novel. | Lit Hub Translation
• Because every season is disaster season in America 2020… Amy Brady has your brand new climate change reads for September. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• Obsession and desire in an ancient Assyrian library: Jo Marchant on the discovery of a true treasure. | Lit Hub History
• “Breaking it down to one line, one sentence, that’s how to start.” The great singer-songwriter Valerie June with some advice for all writers. | Lit Hub Music 
• “There were things to cover things, things to hold other things, things that were representations of yet more things.” Jennifer Howard on how the Victorians invented clutter. | Lit Hub History 
• “Even in a pandemic, even in grief, I found myself commanded to amplify the voices of the dead that sing to me, from their boat to my boat, on the sea of time.” Jesmyn Ward on losing her husband and grieving—and writing—through the pandemic. | Vanity Fair
• Meet  Alice Birch, the British playwright quietly writing all your favorite shows (including Normal People, of course). | Elle
• “In the education world, we always talk about giving students a voice. What does that actually look like?” On the high school English teacher who has helped over 100 students publish their work. | The Atlantic
• Claudia Castro Luna, Washington state’s poet laureate, writes that for Seattle to be a true “city of literature,” it must foster inclusivity. | Crosscut
• Dana International, the Israeli singer who won the Eurovision contest in 1998, is taking on a new role: a literary agent for LGBTQ+ writers from around the world. | Israel Hayom
• Need help teaching kids about social distancing? Some new children’s books are here to help. | Washington Post
• Libraries are using design to respond to patrons’ safety needs during the coronavirus pandemic. | American Libraries

Also on Lit Hub: Read from Hector Tobar’s new novel The Last Road Bum · Patricia Morrisroe goes deep on researching a novel about Beethoven · Red Ink Live, with Afia Atakora, Tiana Clark, Amy Jo Burns and more.