Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2022

• “Many people, my parents included, found that one of the best ways of rising above the tide of hostility and racism that greeted them was to always present the best versions of themselves.” Mike Gayle on sartorial optimism. | Lit Hub

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• A life with a lot of dents: Matthew Cappucci on the thrills (and hazards) of chasing tornados. | Lit Hub Nature

• Dana Milbank considers the Republican Party’s embrace of political violence before January 6th—including Sarah Palin’s call to arms and crosshairs image over Gabby Giffords’s district. | Lit Hub Politics

• Salman Rushdie is recovering but still in critical condition following a brutal onstage attack on Friday. | The Hub

• Serena Tara checks out a newly opened bookstore hidden inside a Brooklyn bodega. | Thrillist

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• Rachel Brittain recommends ten favorite books set in Hawaii. | Book Riot

• A library in Logan, Iowa, is facing complaints from people who do not want it to carry LGBTQ-inclusive books. | KETV Omaha

• Sophie Vershbow talks to publishing insiders about the stakes of the proposed Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger. | Esquire

• “The gaps that open within and between adaptations of his work allows for readers to enter and move rather freely.” Ashley Domingo Hendricks considers the literal and metaphorical gutters in Neil Gaiman’s books. | JSTOR Daily

• Katie Hafner considers the pivot from reporter to novelist: “The closed fist of facts is a haven of sorts. When granted the freedom of fiction, and with it what feels like an infinite number of directions a story can go, a journalist can lose control.” | The Washington Post

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