Lit Hub Daily: September 24, 2018

• The best book covers of September. | Lit Hub
• Who gets to be depressed? Sarah Fawn Montgomery on teaching the literature of “mad women.” | Lit Hub
• “Living is being greedy for days.” Read from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle: Book 6. | Lit Hub
• How Kristi Coulter learned not to sweat(writing about) the small stuff. | Lit Hub
• “The people below rose to their feet, turned to us, and cheered.” Sally Field on bringing Norma Raeto Cannes. | Lit Hub
• On the fossil wars: it’s science vs. commerce, dinosaur edition! | Lit Hub
• Five Famous Faulkner Fables: Classic reviews of the Nobel Prize-winner’s most iconic novels. | Book Marks
• Benet Brandreth, crime writer and dialogue coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company, on the dangerous lives and many duels of Elizabethan playwrights. | CrimeReads
• The National Book Foundation’s 2018 5 under 35 honorees have been announced. | The Washington Post
• A bookstore in the small German town of Bad Sooden-Allendorf has bolstered its sales by adding freshly baked bread and sausages to its inventory. | The New York Times
• “While the novelist might rejoice in his subject, some readers tend to yawn—really, another story of some tedious nobody?” In defense of minor characters. | Commonweal
• One day at the library, in photos: a visual ode to one of our most important institutions. | Slate
• “Lessing never apologized for the choices she had made, but she never seemed quite settled with them either.” On Doris Lessing and what it means to be a “free woman.” | New York Review of Books
• “I wanted to do a social art project where books were the theme, and I also wanted to do something that centered Black women.” An interview with OlaRonke Akinmowo, founder of the Free Black Women’s Library. | Hyperallergic
• Joe Moran on how to write a great sentence—and why it’s the most important element of writing. | The Guardian
• “Austen may not have realized it at the time, but her novels are covered in wall-to-wall shade.” What Jane Austen knew about being a gay man in the 21st century. | Read it Forward

Also on Lit Hub:Tobias Carroll on the intersection of fiction and technology • Read from Big City