Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2017

• From majesty to drudgery, St. Exupéry to DeLillo, how we write about air travel. | Literary Hub
• Chris Kraus on Kathey Acker’s naked “I.”  | Literary Hub
• Are we different writers when we switch from longhand to screen? | Literary Hub
• Retracing the great Willa Cather’s steps in the south of France. | Literary Hub
• The architecture of fantasy and magic: Read a 2005 review of Jeanette Walls’ recently adapted memoir, The Glass Castle. | Book Marks
• “Despite his disinterest, despite our limited time frame, despite the huge disparity between our levels of coolness, I was going to get this boy to love me.” An excerpt from Chelsea Martin’s essay collection, Caca Dolce. | Lenny
• As the 350th anniversary of Paradise Lost approaches, a charity seeks help in their quest to preserve the 16th-century cottage in which Milton completed his masterpiece. | The Guardian
• “I practice pessimism so I’m never disappointed.” An interview with poet Lynne Melnick. | Full Stop
• “These little endorsements can reach a much larger audience.” Why book publicists are chasing the celebrity social media bump from famous readers like Reese Witherspoon and Emma Roberts. | T Magazine
• Model-actress and erstwhile Taylor Swift squad member Cara Delevingne will publish her debut novel Mirror Mirror—coauthored with Rowan Coleman—in October. | Los Angeles Times
• “The words I had thought were mine seemed no longer in my possession.” Elisa Gonzalez on her childhood Spelling Bee victories—and losses. | Harvard Review
• “If you’ve grown up in Pakistan you know there’s no such thing as a political spot in which humor can’t play a role.” An interview with Home Fire author Kamila Shamsie. | Omnivoracious

Also on Lit Hub: Benjamin Rachlin on how to write a scene that really happened · Oscar Wilde on the big screen, and other film and TV news · From Things That Happened Before the Earthquake by Chiara Barzini.