Lit Hub Daily: May 4, 2020

• Tori Amos opens up about her creative process (hint: it involves listening to The Muses). | Lit Hub Memoir
• In honor of the 155th anniversary of Alice’s tumble down the rabbit hole, 20 artists’ visions of her adventures in Wonderland. | Lit Hub
• “They had the same power—to stick in the throat of Desire.” Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy. | Lit Hub
• An exercise in anti-mythologizing: on the writers who shaped Vincent van Gogh, from Dickens to Beecher Stowe. | Lit Hub
• “You can find solitude out here if you want to, but it’s not likely to be in a national park.” Todd Robert Peterson on the ethics lesson offered by nature tourism during a pandemic. | Lit Hub
• Kristen Millares Young on learning from Makah tradition, and the long fight to decolonize book research. | Lit Hub
• Guy Fraser-Sampson celebrates the queens of Golden Age detective fiction. | CrimeReads
• Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, The Secret History, A Visit From the Good Squad, and more rapid-fire book recs from Angie Kim. | Book Marks
• The New York Public Library released a playlist of library sounds—including audio glimpses of storytime, and a helpful librarian—to ease your social isolation. | Electric Lit
• “Black death has never before elicited so much attention”: When James Baldwin wrote about the Atlanta child murders. | The New Yorker
• Sadly, the pandemic has canceled yet another cultural event: the annual Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in Key West. | The New York Times
• A social media campaign tagged #ReadIndie will invite independent publishers and their supporters to bring as much attention as possible to small presses. | Publishers Weekly
• “Gornick aimed to show that Communists were people, too—noble people with an outsize longing for justice, even if it led them into error.
” On the recent resurgence of Vivian Gornick.| The New Republic
• If you’re wondering what a post-coronavirus world will look like, read some plague literature. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: How the sculptor Ruth Asawa found her voice at Black Mountain College • “Thanksgiving: A Poem,” by Ted Rees • Read an excerpt from César Aira’s novella Artforum, trans. by Katherine Silver.