Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2022

• Inspired by the latest season of The Great British Baking Show? Try out GBB alum Nadiya Hussain’s very simple coffee cake. | Lit Hub Food

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• “For me, holding onto TK instead of sliding into the layman’s alternatives isn’t just a matter of utility— it’s about holding onto a piece of myself.” Sophie Vershbow on the surprisingly emotional shorthand. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Heidi Sopinka describes the power of a writing uniform—or, why you should dress like your character. | Lit Hub Style

• Why revere physical books? George Prochnik has thoughts. | Lit Hub Criticism

• From roombas to sexbots, what our robot future looks like. | Lit Hub Tech

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• Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey: Alison LaSorda considers the unlikely legacy of a Benedictine apiarist. | Lit Hub Nature

• How “Aunt Elsie,” a beloved newswoman and children’s columnist, soared to fame. | Lit Hub History

• If you’re new to reading Langston Hughes, Malik Al Nasir recommends some places to start. | The Guardian

• Sören Schuhmacher talks about getting started in the rare book trade and what he personally collects. | Fine Books & Collections

• Clio Chang talks to Cathy Park Hong about Minor Feelings and Hong’s journey from poet to “liberal America’s go-to Asian thinker.” | Vulture

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• “In short fiction, essays, and memoir, quite as much as the celebrated novels, each Mantel sentence seems to contain all of her.” Brian Dillon remembers Hilary Mantel. | The Yale Review

• Sam Lin-Sommer traces András Koerner’s search for the first Hebrew-lettered cookbook. | Atlas Obscura

• “When we own what happened to us—when we own our suffering—it becomes ours to keep and to learn to come to terms with.” Jarvis Jay Masters on writing as a form of power. | Oprah Daily

• On the importance of multilingualism among elementary school students—and what one local library is doing to promote it. | Bowdoin

Also on Lit Hub: The 15 best book covers of September • A multi-genre reading list of ballet books • Read from Stephanie Lacava’s latest novel, I Fear My Pain Interests You