Lit Hub Daily: March 27, 2020

• THESE TIMES: “I’d rather die on a Zoom talking about books.” Suzanne Rivecca on finally finding literary community · Liesl Schillinger on the unacknowledged hero who discovered that handwashing saves lives · More personal quarantine book recommendations for your reading pleasure · Patrick Stewart reads you a sonnet · ON THE VBC: Hilary Leichter talks to Maris on Sheltering · Courtney Maum has a drink with Christopher Hermelin on The Literary Drinking Show. | Life in a Pandemic
• EXT. SUBURBAN FRONT LAWN — DUSK: Treat yourself to a deleted scene from Get Out. | Lit Hub Film
• Idanna Pucci on Rebecca Salomé Foster, the woman who fought for Sing Sing’s early incarcerated women. | Lit Hub History
• New titles from Emily St. John Mandel, N. K. Jemisin, and Sarah Perry all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• “The need is for those conditions of work, the meeting of place and habits, that allow the right words to emerge.” On taking inspiration from famous authors’ creative processes. | Lit Hub
• “We need stories, and we will have them.” Joyce Carol Oates on reading, writing, and literary community in the current moment. | WSJ
• “My hour lost in this space felt like forever but also like no time at all.” Dan Kois on having Capitol Hill Books in Washington, DC to himself. | Slate
• “Ultimately, I was like, This is just not going to be a big launch. And that’s okay.” Bess Kalb on promoting a new book during the coronavirus pandemic. | Vulture
• Yes, your suspicions have been confirmed: under lockdown, it looks like more people are sending their book queries and manuscripts to agents. | The Guardian
• Meet Carole Roman, author of The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids, which went from being your usual children’s book to Amazon’s #1 bestselling book (briefly) as children remain inside. | The Independent
• “The pamphlets are a breeding ground for debates and tests of emerging concepts of companionate marriage and female independence.” How stories of “fiendish females” challenged Victorian ideals. | JSTOR
• If you’re itching for literary companionship in your isolation, here are 10 virtual book clubs you can join right now. | Time

Also on Lit Hub: Read an excerpt from Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s novel That Hair, trans. by Eric M. B. Baker.