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Hannah Bonner talks to director Nia DaCosta about Hedda, her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play: “The desire for power is this animal urge inside us, and if we were more capable to engage in our fallibility because we are animals I think we would probably be in a better place.” | Lit Hub Film
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, and John Banville’s Venetian Vespers all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
“Learning how to write badly isn’t learning a new skill; it’s learning how to tell perfectionism that it can no longer control my creative endeavors.” Tawny Lara explains why it’s okay to embrace your trash first drafts. | Lit Hub Craft
A deeply moving and often hilarious novel following a woman who becomes an internet folk hero in the most unexpected way, catapulting her into fame and influence just as she’s finally beginning to reckon with her complicated past.
