Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2022

• “Bloody, but make it art.” Jessa Crispin on the complicated relationship between Kansans and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. | Lit Hub Criticism

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• How Talia Lakshmi Khouri went about exploring the inner lives of animals in fiction. | Lit Hub Craft

• “It’s the kind of energy that just might change your life.” In praise of Martha Cooper’s exhilarating photos of 1980s NYC graffiti. | Lit Hub Photography

• What will it take to evoke a sustained emergency response to the climate crisis? David Suzuki makes the case for theater. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• It takes a village: Michele Huchison on how translation can (and should) be a collective effort. | Lit Hub On Translation

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• “Some movies are made for art, some for profit, and some in order to win a bet.” Behind the scenes of Roger Corman’s campy, culty The Little Shop of Horrors, one of the cheapest Hollywood films ever made. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Peter Straub, author of literary horror, has died at 79. | The New York Times

• Alana May Johnson offers perfume pairings with beloved books. | Dirt

• “Could anything more tragic than this befall those writers — a dispersion that may never come together again?” Homeira Qaderi on the state of Afghan literature under Taliban rule. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Librarians talk to Madeleine Carlile about how book bans are putting their funding and collections at risk. | TIME

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• Erin Blakemore tracks the history of book censorship in the United States. | National Geographic

• Caitlin Hobbs gives a primer on Ursula K. Le Guin. | Book Riot

Also on Lit Hub: Readings from contemporary Nigeria, recommended by Lola Jaye • A plea for practical commitment to our planet • Read from Hemley Boum’s newly translated novel, Days Come and Go (tr. Nchanji Njamnsi)