Things to Do in Hell is the dad bod of poetry collections, chronicling the strain of these times with the quotidian pain of a man who likely eats at Le Pain Quotidian. And that’s what makes it so delicious.

Zora Neale Hurston’s short story collection, “Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick,” reads as a reflection of Hurston’s own journey from her small-town upbringing in Eatonville, Florida, to her evolution as a central literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance.