Lit Hub Daily: September 22, 2022

TODAY: In 1888, the first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published. It contains no photographs and costs 50 cents.  

• What Andrew Sean Greer is reading now and next, from Apeirogon to Booth. | Lit Hub

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• Check out the shortlist for the 2022 Cundill History Prize, and the longlist for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction. | The Hub

• Manil Suri reflects on his pursuit to answer life’s Big Questions—using only math. | Lit Hub

• Why is it so difficult to write about (and inhabit) male friendship? Michael Pederson has some thoughts. | Lit Hub

• Robin Wall Kimmerer on the “deep-seated fiction of human exceptionalism” that’s killing our planet. | Lit Hub Climate Change

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• Against using metaphors to talk about gentrification. | Lit Hub

• Yiyun Li on complicated friendships real and imagined. | Lit Hub Radio

• Ramzi Fawaz on Thelma & Louise, “queer forms,” and the radical possibilities of queer community. | Lit Hub Politics

• How Clarence Darrow threw his morals to the wind to defend wealthy (and confessed) murderers Leopold and Loeb. | Lit Hub History

• “Fame has been kind to Ian McEwan, but not to his writing.” It’s the five book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

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  Rhian Sasseen considers Henry James’s 1898 novella In the Cage, which follows an unnamed telegram operator in London, from her perspective as a former social media manager. | The Baffler

• Ten years after the release of the cult-classic film, Stephen Chbosky discusses adapting his novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. | Vanity Fair

• “It’s more my journal than my journal.” Sandra Cisneros talks to Yxta Maya Murray about her new poetry collection. | The New Yorker

• Jeff VanderMeer talks about the lessons he’s learned from rewilding his own yard. | Audubon Magazine

• “Libraries have worked hard to meet their communities where they are.” How the role of libraries has shifted in recent years. | The Conversation

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• “Bans increase sales only when they are accompanied by a media blitz.” Connor Goodwin digs into what happens to most banned books. | The Atlantic

Also on Lit Hub: How much foresight do animals have? • How producers conceive of music • Read from Chelsea Martin’s debut novel, Tell Me I’m An Artist

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