Lit Hub Daily October 1, 2021
TODAY: In 1914, Daniel J. Boorstin, the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress, is born.
Limes for Amy March: Jean Huang considers the evolving literary and cultural history of citrus. | Lit Hub History
The literary film and TV you should stream in October features a remake of a legendarily bad adaptation, Claudia Llosa’s take on Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, and the best Mr. Darcy of all time. | Lit Hub Film & TV
“For the dutiful writer, a notebook is the best kind of camera.” Roy Peter Clark’s advice for writing cinematically. | Lit Hub Craft
Indie booksellers recommend their favorite new titles from indie presses this September and October. | Lit Hub
Bruce Jones traces how the Zanzibari coast became famous… for modern-day pirates. | Lit Hub History
Fire Lyte recommends witchy books for spooky season. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Celia Mattson recommends 31 horror films about writing, reading, and the business of books. | CrimeReads
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle, and Lauren Groff’s Matrix all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. | Book Marks
WATCH: Kinari Webb on her quest to heal the world · Tayla Miron-Shatz on choosing to live a healthier and happier life. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel 
“If characters are being created for illustrative purposes or representative purposes, you’re kind of fucked.” Jonathan Franzen and Merve Emre in conversation. | Vulture
On the double standards imposed upon creators of color and the privilege of mediocrity, which is “is reserved for the few, and those mostly white, male, and straight.” | T Magazine
Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, discusses her new memoir and finding recognition in Maya Angelou. | NPR
An audiovisual translator discusses the process of creating subtitles and dubs for TV and films. | Zócalo Public Square
Why Banned Books Week should include conversations about prison censorship. | The Mary Sue
Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. Douglas on Black scholarship and why “structural racism and capitalist imperialism are everywhere, including the institutional spaces intended to nurture their critique.” | Boston Review
Jaime Herndon asks what makes up the children’s canon of literature. | Book Riot
NEW ON LIT HUB RADIO
The Quarantine Tapes celebrates its 200th episode with the launch of the Argentine edition: up first, María Kodama talks about quarantine, freedom, and her late husband, Jorge Luis Borges. * Colm Tóibín discusses the great Thomas Mann, on Open Source. * Gill Paul on the first modern person to enter King Tutankhamun’s tomb, on New Books Network. * Betsy Hotel owner Jonathan Plutzik on why a hotel should be a space for comfort and healing through the arts, on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan.
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