 
					Lit Hub Daily: September 21, 2021
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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Ruth Ozeki tells us about a professor’s prophecy, her 25-year-old process journal, and the best advice she’s ever received. | Lit Hub Questionnaire Article continues after advertisement
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You Doom and Gloomers May Be on to Something: an illustrated collection of very honest book covers. | Lit Hub 
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Stuck in a reading funk? Here are 16 new books for that. | The Hub 
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“I care about you more than you know.” When Tennessee Williams reached out to an embattled Truman Capote. | Lit Hub History 
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“This is how I like to think of genres. As different literary conversations, ones that stretch back in time.” Lincoln Michel in defense of genre labels. | Lit Hub Article continues after advertisement
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Saumya Roy on the risks of book covers becoming “poverty porn.” | Lit Hub 
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Suzanne O’Sullivan investigates the cultural and traumatic elements behind resignation syndrome, which is affecting hundreds of young asylum-seekers in Sweden. | Lit Hub 
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How Michael Sayman, a second-generation Latino immigrant, became known as “the Boy Genius of Apple.” | Lit Hub Memoir 
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On the occasion of its 84th publication anniversary, a look back at C. S. Lewis’s 1937 review of The Hobbit. | Book Marks 
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Barbara J. Wilson investigates the queer old case of the spinster sleuth. | CrimeReads Article continues after advertisement
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A reading list of 13 queer kid and YA books to read this #WorldKidLitMonth. | Words Without Borders 
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Take a tour of Haruki Murakami’s accidental novelty T-shirt collection. | The New Yorker 
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“Even those villains who appear hellbent on saving the natural world do so with an all-consuming destructive fervor.” A case for Swamp Thing as great climate fiction. | Gawker 
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Imani Perry on novelist Gayl Jones, who disappeared from public life in 1998. | The New York Times Magazine 
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“Rather than write what I know, I write what I want to know.” Anthony Doerr discusses his new novel and the Netflix adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See. | The Guardian Article continues after advertisement
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The Black Film Archive is bringing a renewed focus to stories of cinema’s Black artists throughout history. | Los Angeles Times 
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Take a walk through Ramona Quimby’s Portland with this self-guided tour. | The Seattle Times 
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