Lit Hub Daily: September 23, 2021

• “I love this big horny red painting because it’s bitch work. It’s tooth and claw.” Eileen Myles follows Joan Mitchell’s path through New York City and wonders why they never met (spoiler: it’s misogyny). | Lit Hub Art

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• As miraculous as it is quotidian: Farah Jasmine Griffin considers Black love and her parents’ enduring marriage. | Lit Hub Memoir

• How did we end up with the lazy stoner stereotype? According to Josiah Hesse, the “answer to that question begins with an ambitious racist looking for some job security.” | Lit Hub History

• On Bessie Smith’s bewitching blues and nuanced legacy. | Lit Hub Music

• Jay Gabler tells a long, sad story of failed sci-fi adaptations and wonders if the new Foundation series, based on Isaac Asimov’s trilogy, will finally break the curse. | Lit Hub TV

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• Telling family stories is one thing, Kei Miller writes, but “how does one begin to tell silence?” | Lit Hub Memoir

• When Buckingham Palace stopped hosting debutante parties, kicking off panic that the Season was over forever. | Lit Hub History

• Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Richie Narvaez on on the life and work of Edwin Torres, the Nuyorican author of Carlito’s Way, Q&A, and After Hours. | CrimeReads

• Is the rise of “influencer publishing” good for books? | The New Statesman

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• Listen to this interview with Brandon Taylor, who discusses the tensions of everyday relationships, writing from a Black and queer perspective, and his intended audience. | NPR

• Alexandra Kleeman unpacks the creative choices behind her new novel. | Bustle

• “Is it even possible, or relevant, to speak of a ‘poetry world’?” David Schurman Wallace considers John Ashbery in the age of social media. | The Drift

• Peter Wayne Moe considers the pleasure of rereading Moby Dick. | The Millions

• Bad Blood author John Carreyrou discusses the Elizabeth Holmes trial. | The New Yorker

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• A school board in Pennsylvania has backtracked on its plan to bar a number of books by authors of color from classroom use. | The Guardian

• Richard Powers speaks about his new book and considering the arts “the most transformative kind of empathy machine we have.” | Kirkus

Also on Lit Hub: On the precocious early years of Marie Antoinette • Artists and publishers on the nature of the photobook • Read from Ruth Ozeki’s latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness