Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Graphic Novels Help Kids Build Literacy Skills Even though educators and librarians have known for decades that comics are actually good for kids to read , it’s really nice to see more and more writing–with links to the evidence–about the power of the graphic novel. Comics help kids build crucial literacy skills, and because kids enjoy reading them, it’s a win-win for all. This is a nice read that lays out the research in a highly readable and sharable way. Want your kids to pause their scrolling for a bit? Keep ’em elbow deep in comics! ‘Making The Scarlet Letter Into My Career’: My Life as a Sex Writer This is an excerpt from a a memoir coming out this week, and it’s a good one. There are so many careers that the general public finds “less than,” and many of those have to do with sex–be it sex work or in the case here, taking sex writing seriously .…