Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2023

TODAY: In 1929, author and Feminist Press founder Florence Howe is born.   

• Murong Xuecun considers how China’s government continues to use COVID-19 as a front for totalitarianism, restriction, and surveillance. | Lit Hub Politics

• Great Adaptations: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the long history of Charles Dickens on screen. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “I am always conscious of the fact that my voice will be the last voice the animal hears, and my touch will be the last touch.” Veterinarian Karen Fine on coming to terms with performing euthanasia. | Lit Hub

• No private misfortune: A call for public acknowledgement in the face of sexual violence. | Lit Hub Politics

• Why Oscar Wilde is a ghost twice over in Dublin. | Lit Hub History

• Idra Novey’s Take What You Need, Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful, and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s A Stranger in Your Own City all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Vive la paperbacks: Gen Z readers are eschewing e-books. | Business Insider

• “Fosse grabs hold of us, intellectually and physiologically, and asks that we cleave to a state of mind largely lost to secular modernity: paying attention.” A deep dive on the great Jon Fosse. | The Point

• Let Jonathan Escoffrey take you on a literary tour through Miami. | The New York Times

• Every song on Daisy Jones & the Six, ranked. | Vulture

Also on Lit Hub: Kate DiCamillo on seeing The Magician’s Elephant adapted for film • Idra Novey on conjuring haunting characters • Read from Claire Jiménez’s debut novel, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez