Lit Hub Weekly: March 4 - March 8, 2024

• James Kaplan on Miles Davis’s legendary feud with Wynton Marsalis, one of the greatest generational battles in jazz. | Lit Hub Music
• Novelist Sanaë Lemoine sings the praises of the sheet pan and, with Olga Massov, shares a recipe for sheet pan fried rice. | Lit Hub Food
• M.C. Mah on the rise and fall and rise of endless streaming: “Our culture’s loss is compounded by subterfuge. Prestige TV plays both sides: at once a weighted blanket and our most vigorous artform.” | Lit Hub TV
• Mary Morris on her long friendship with Russell Banks: “I grew up with Russell—as a writer, as a teacher and thinker, and as a friend.” | Lit Hub Memoir
• A guide to getting into the Dune-iverse, whose “entry points are numerous.” | Esquire
• “I thought: oh my God, they’re going to try and make a movie out of that?” Mary Harron on adapting American Psycho. | London Review of Books
• How Maxwell Tani became the go-to reporter for news about media layoffs, and what journalism might look like in the future. | Slate
• Nicholas Russell talks to book critic Becca Rothfeld about artistic discernment, critical approaches, and the video essayist ContraPoints. | Defector
• Scott Sherman in conversation with Edwin Frank, the editorial director of the NYRB Classics: “Well, it does seem to me that everything that makes journalism of the moment conspires against subsequent accessibility.” | The Point
• “In the book and in general, these things are not what you think they are.” Merve Emre interviews Rachel Cusk. | The Yale Review
• Robert Spoo asks not only if literature can cure law, but also, should it? | Public Books 
• Urban lit authors weigh in on American Fiction. | AP
• Liza Featherstone considers the disastrous environmental toll of A.I. | The New Republic
• “Learning to bring the unnamed to conscious awareness is not only the sole means of demystifying an elusive process; it is itself one of the core aims and pleasures of writing.” Notes on craft, from Greg Jackson. | Granta
• What’s the deal with gardens and murder mysteries? Maybe it’s that “gardens are a battleground for good and evil, a meeting place of life and death.” | JSTOR Daily
• “American Prometheus had something of an edge on its 2005 competitors because Sherwin had already done an enormous amount of research for an uncompleted Oppenheimer bio in the 1970s.” On Oppenheimer, biography, and biopics. | JSTOR Daily
• Silvana Paternostro compiles an oral history of the last ten posthumous years of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez. | The Paris Review
• “When Cooper left the Academy Awards empty handed, the only person more relieved than that year’s best actor, Rami Malek, was Connor Willumsen.” Watching Bradley Cooper chase his Oscar is its own kind of agony. | The Walrus
• “To stand in front of an audience at such a time, I said, felt like standing in a pool of blood in kidskin shoes.” Selma Dabbagh on speaking at the Karachi Literature Festival. | London Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub:

Your literary guide to The Oscars • A hidden fraternity of the forsaken in the American West • Ismar Volić makes the case for why we need to abandon winner-take-all voting • Liesl Schwabe revisits the work of Diane di Prima • Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison in conversation • When indie publishers and corporate booksellers collide • Rebecca Morgan Frank recommends new poetry collections • Ten new children’s books out in March • What Diane Seuss is reading now and next • Read a poem by Nam Le from his new collection • “Instantly I decided: The notebook was magic.” • Dalya Benor on the fragmented art history book • These twenty-five new books are out today • Kalpana Raina on translating her uncle Hari Krishna Kaul’s stories • A poem from Rose McLarney’s new collection, Colorfast • Glass dildos and other early modern methods of self-pleasure • “Rowan Tree,” a poem from Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ new collection, Silver • Linda Troeller and Darcey Steinke consider aging and the liberatory potential of the self-portrait • Tessa Hulls on defying racial and cultural classification • Saeed Jones on RuPaul’s memoir •  Grace Loh Prasad on finding meaning in the space between Chinese and Western astrology •  Jennifer Croft on how photography • How the McLaughlin sisters took the photography world by storm • The best reviewed books of the week • Poetry by Herbert Gold and his Son, Ari • Allison Winn Scotch recommends vacation and road trip rom-coms