Lit Hub Daily: September 30, 2022

TODAY: In 1924, Truman Capote is born.   

• Who could win the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature? Who should? | Lit Hub

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• Lena Dunham adapts a classic childhood text, the Westworld creators take on William Gibson, and three (!) vampire stories get the screen treatment in the Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in October. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “Poetry is part seduction, part abduction.” Sandra Cisneros on the private act of crafting poetry. | Lit Hub Craft

• The joy of cooking from scratch: Maori Murota’s recipe for Okonomiyaki, easy Japanese pancakes. | Lit Hub Food

• Drew Johnson muses on the elusive dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie in the films High Life and A Period of Juvenile Prosperity. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• On Janet Yellen’s mission to use the Federal Reserve’s powers to actually help those in need. | Lit Hub Politics

• How can we make amends to someone who can’t receive our apology? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg considers the 12th-century Torah scholar Maimonides’ Laws of Repentance. | Lit Hub Religion

• Ian McEwan’s Lessons, Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait, Kate Beaton’s Ducks, and Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

• The best new crime shows coming in October. | CrimeReads

• The Month in Literary Listening: AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of September. | Book Marks

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• With more libraries coming under attack from rightwing groups, Jennifer Palmer talks about how books actually end up on school library shelves. | Oklahoma Watch

• Carolina Ciucci gives a brief history of Margaret K. McElderry Books, whose founder “changed the landscape of children’s literature.” | Book Riot

• John Banville discusses the letters of Lucian Freud, “a release and a relief from the rigours of a life dedicated to the making of art.” | The Guardian

• “They are difficult because love is difficult and makes difficult people out of those who try it.” Apoorva Tadepalli on the “all-too-human novels” of Gwendoline Riley. | The Baffler

• Keith Gessen talks to war-termination theorists about how the war in Ukraine might end. | The New Yorker

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• “There is the dream beyond here, and then there is the dream that is the here.” Hanif Abdurraqib describes the magic of summer basketball. | ESPN

Also on Lit Hub: What’s the point of a doom prequel? • How to love to your horrible little goblins, and other advice from Calvin Kasulke • Read a story from Bojan Louis’s debut collection, Sinking Bell

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