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“I felt I could be my truest sexual self.” A brief political—and personal—history of gay bathhouses from Rasheed Newson. | Lit Hub History
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“The truth is that attention-seeking is both anathema and integral to art.” Lauren Acampora on the particular pain of book promotion. | Lit Hub
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Linda Kinstler examines the “carefully orchestrated” Little Nuremberg trial in Riga, a signal to the world that the Soviets had returned to Latvia. | Lit Hub
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Madam and the Census Man: What Langston Hughes understood about how power shapes US Census data. | Lit Hub Politics
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Allison Wyss considers The Expanse, public health, and the “revelatory struggle” to reclaim one’s body. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Barbara Lane offers a brief history of the book blurb. | San Francisco Chronicle
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On the evolving role of libraries and the people who work in them: “Librarians, in turn, have been called on to play the role of welfare workers, first responders, therapists, and security guards.” | California Healthline
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“In the act of recalling happiness, memory becomes distorted.” Cecily Wong considers homesickness and nostalgia. | The Millions
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Amanda Gorman talks to Kaitlyn Greenidge about poetry, possibility, and changing the world. | Harper’s Bazaar
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“Through the menu, Regan was taking a popular narrative and questioning it by presenting it through food.” Rachel P. Kreiter on the work of chef Iliana Regan, who specializes in “cooking fanfiction.” | Eater
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Nick Ripatrazone makes the case for John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” as the perfect late summer read. | Gawker
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“The techniques of the 19th-century novel offer so many opportunities to put characters through their paces.” Alice Elliott Dark on writing Fellowship Point, her first book in 20 years. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Jincy Willett on writing from life without betraying anyone • Reading Proust in a black and white world • Read from Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest novel, Afterlives
