Lit Hub Daily: August 23, 2019

• FALL 2019 NONFICTION PREVIEW: All this week we’ve been highlighting our most anticipated books on a variety of subjects, from history and biography to memoir and essay collections to politics and social science. The final installments: tech and science.  | Lit Hub
• “Everything about Jo repulsed me.” Jenny Zhang on her complicated feelings about Little Women’s heroine. | Lit Hub
• What does a war correspondent look like? Zara Meerza on conflict journalism by Arab women. | Lit Hub
• “Tourists, it might be argued, are not looking for stories.” On overtourism and the joy of unsung places. | Lit Hub
• Ugly drafts, unintentional novels, and serendipity: Susan Steinberg in conversation about craft with Diane Cook. | Lit Hub
• Neil Nyren looks at the life and work of Rex Stout, who married the British Golden Age with hard-boiled American detective fiction. | CrimeReads
• A blistering Brexit novel, a instruction manual for antiracism, and an exposé of abuses at sea all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• Indie publisher Galley Beggar Press took a chance on Lucy Ellman’s giant, Booker Prize-nominated novel Ducks, Newburyport when her usual publisher passed on it. Here’s the story of the small press. | The National
• “Of course people should read more books. But sometimes they don’t, and maybe that’s fine.” In defense of the comforting reread. | Vox
• On the influence of high-powered literary agent John Brockman, Jeffrey Epstein’s “intellectual enabler.” | The New Republic
• If you have an extra $30,000 a month lying around (v.g. for you!), you can rent Helen Fielding’s LA home. | My San Antonio
• “I have to say—I did not expect gel electrophoresis to be so beautiful.” Grace Han on designing the cover for Brandon Taylor’s Real Life. | SPINE

Also on Lit Hub: Suketu Mehta on fighting anti-immigrant rhetoric and racist populism in Trump’s America • Lit Hub Recommends • Read from Stéphane Larue’s debut novel The Dishwasher (trans. Pablo Strauss) .