Lit Hub Daily: September 21, 2022

TODAY: In 1926, Persian poet Fereydoon Moshiri is born in Tehran.  

• Fall is in the air, and so are the reading lists. Here’s your Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol united as friends, and how their work—Warhol’s on the margins, Capote’s for the masses—diverged. | Lit Hub Biography

• The aesthetic of a revolution: Silas Munro observes the graphic design of the Civil Rights Movement. | Lit Hub Design

• How “The Pale Man” of Pan’s Labyrinth was made—or, working with visionary perfectionist Guillermo del Toro. | Lit Hub Film

• Why innocent people—like Marvin Anderson—can’t get out of prison. | Lit Hub

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• “In a way, I feel like I have joined a cult too.” Alison Wisdom on incorporating the cults of gymnastics and ultra-conservative religion in her novel. | Lit Hub

• Eight new true crime podcasts to binge this fall. | CrimeReads

• Lily Meyers talks to writers and translators about translation advocacy and what it takes for a book to make its way to the English-speaking world. | LARB

• “The loss of a language is the first step toward losing cultural and ethnic memories.” Yiyun Li considers the recently translated Belarusian novel Alindarka’s Children. | Jewish Currents

• What do we really know about the printing press’s history? Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing talks to the scientists trying to unravel the mystery. | Atlas Obscura

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• “It’s a blueprint for peace in a time of chaos.” Elisabeth Egan considers the staying power of Goodnight Moon. | The New York Times

• Gabrielle Zevin on the intersection of video games and storytelling: “They provide a place where we can actually be vulnerable and more open to the full spectrum of human emotions.” | The Guardian

• “It has been an immense gift to know people who survived, and to listen to their stories and wisdom.” Martha Anne Toll on Greek mythology, trauma, and learning from the stories of Holocaust survivors. | The Millions

• “I’ve written about all these different subjects, but they all kind of orbit this thing I’ve never written.” Ryu Spaeth talks to Hua Hsu about writing criticism versus a memoir. | Vulture

Also on Lit Hub: Malaka Gharib on learning to love her stepmother • How the new eco-literature grapples with a world in crisis • Read from Gwendoline Riley’s latest novel, First Love

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