Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2023

Lit Hub Daily

Jun 2

TODAY: In 1962, Vita Sackville-West dies at 70.

A guide to the Cannes Film Festival's literary offerings, from The Zone of Interest to Killers of the Flower Moon. | Lit Hub Film & TV
Logan Steiner on learning life lessons from Anne of Green Gables—and Anne's equally "unfiltered, exuberant" creator. | Lit Hub
Near death at the bottom of the Grand Canyon: Steph Catudal recalls the beginning of her husband's mysterious illness. | Lit Hub Memoir
"Muslim women cannot be squeezed into neat little boxes." Zara Raheem on finding (and creating) Muslim women in fiction. | Lit Hub Reading List
Lucy Scholes makes the case for Shirley Hazzard's second novel, The Bay of Noon, a WWII story and love letter to Naples. | Lit Hub Criticism
Lizzie Steiner with seven true crime podcasts you need to listen to this summer. | CrimeReads
Diego Rodríguez Landeros draws a line between urban smells and revolution in Paris and Mexico City. | Words Without Borders
"Before my father died in 2001, I knew that I loved him but only dimly. I didn't really feel it, and to the extent that I did, I experienced it as painful." Mary Gaitskill on the last days of her father's life. | The Paris Review
Aimee Levitt considers the impact of Madhur Jaffrey's An Invitation to Indian Cooking on American home cooks. | Eater
Jack Hamilton revisits Stephen King's Night Shift, the story collection that represents "some of the most purely terrifying work of his career." | Slate

Also on Lit Hub: André Naffis-Sahely on the power of memory • Charlotte Gill on adjusting to American life • Read from Debra Magpie Earling's latest novel, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea