March 31, 2023 ‹ Literary Hub

TODAY: Eleanor Marx, literary translator and daughter of Karl Marx, dies at 43. 

• Kathryn Hahn as Cheryl Strayed, David Lowery’s take on Peter Pan, and more literary film and TV you need to stream in April. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “I hadn’t realized how near history was.” Read a 2004 interview with Octavia Butler about the creation of Kindred. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Stressed to death: Considering the life-threatening health impacts of social inequity. | Lit Hub

• How Kelly Fremon Craig landed the adaptation rights to Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Olivia Rutigliano has some thoughts on the new Great Expectations adaptation (not great) and the Shakespearean film The Lost King (much better). | Lit Hub

• Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X, and Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

• Evie Green looks at 8 novels featuring artificial intelligence. | CrimeReads

• “When I went to summer camp, it was like, ‘How am I gonna get through eight weeks here and never touch my special place?’” A conversation with the one and only Judy Blume. | Variety

• Kyra Wilder breaks down her poem “John Wick Is So Tired.” | The Paris Review

• Kyle Chayka discusses AI-generated art, algorithm-mediated culture, and what he’s learned writing for The New Yorker. | Columbia Journalism Review

• “Low energy conservative influencers, dressed in business casual outfits, awkwardly reading (and explaining) their own stories off PowerPoint…” When conservatives try to have a children’s story hour. | The Daily Dot

• “I read Wuthering Heights twice and found it demented.” Real talk from Louise Kennedy. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: 20 new paperbacks hitting shelves in April • Grant Faulkner on capturing the essence of a short story • Read a story from Gayl Jones’s latest collection, Jigsaw Sandals