Lit Hub Daily: September 20, 2023

• “I was free in a way that I think it’s always been rare for a child to be free.” Watch Ursula K. Le Guin talk about how her childhood influenced her development as a writer. | Lit Hub

• Gloria Steinem on 50 years of Ms. Magazine: “A movement is a contagion of truth telling: at last, we know we are not alone.” | Lit Hub History

• Giving the middle finger to the president: John Sargent recounts the furious publication journey of Michael Wolff’s tell-all, Fire and Fury. | Lit Hub Politics

• Mike Rothschild considers the pervasiveness of the Rothschilds myth in literature, film, and theater. | Lit Hub Biography

• The question of the year: Who needs plot when you have vibes? | Elle

• “As an example of depressive realism, Weather enjoys a particular kind of luxury: the luxury of uninflected introspection.” Dana Luciano on Jenny Offill’s Weather and the “crisis ordinary of climate change.” | Post45

• Lynn Steger Strong profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard. | Esquire

• “I did have a dad. He was out there through it all, even if it didn’t feel that way when I was little. He was there. He was there, and he knew. So, was he there?” In the new issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Jeannine Ouellette writes about her father. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

• “If he acts now with urgency and strength, he can replace the poison pill of carbon emissions with medicine.” Lydia Millet calls on President Biden to take “rational action” in the face of the climate crisis. | New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list for India’s 1947 partition • Why turtles are worth saving • Read from David Diop’s newly translated novel, Beyond the Door of No Return (tr. Sam Taylor)