Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2019

• “I annoy everyone around me by observing out loud what everyone already knows.” Sarah M. Broom on coming of age—and learning to see—in New Orleans. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Fifty years on from Woodstock, take a look at some of Jim Marshall’s iconic photos of the festival. | Lit Hub Photography
• “I knew about sex in a vague way—but no one had it laid out like this, like it could be magic.” Isabelle Davis on the power of sex in romance novels. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Where have all the pirates gone? On the contemporary state of maritime crime. | Lit Hub Politics
• Ron Charles on Téa Obreht’s revisionist western, Angela Flournoy on Sarah Broom’s New Orleans memoir, Sloane Crosley on Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist crime tale, and more of the reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• From Becky Sharpe to Miss Marple, Louisa Treger celebrates 10 women in literature who make their own way. | CrimeReads
• A new literary timeline of African-American history, as brought to life by work by Barry Jenkins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Jesmyn Ward, ZZ Packer, Yaa Gyasi, and many more. | The New York Times Magazine
• “We’re looking at all the ghost stories of Henry James as the jumping-off point for the season”: Season 2 of the Netflix hit series The Haunting of Hill House will be based on the Henry James horror classic, The Turn of the Screw. | Esquire
• The annual French tradition known as the rentrée littéraire means hundreds of books will be published there over the next couple of months—an unusual amount owing to the quirks of the publishing industry. | The Local, France
• “I put 1,400 pages in the trash.” Read an interview with Téa Obreht. | TIME
• Let us now praise pretty, pretty books. | The Washington Post

Also on Lit Hub: The very first books published by some of your favorite publishing houses • Read a story by Mazen Maarouf from the anthology Palestine + 100.