Lit Hub Daily: August 26, 2022

• “What better than a little donkey upon which to project my wonderings?” Martha Cooley reflects on emigrating to Venice in her mid-sixties… and befriending a little asinella. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 50 best fictional dragons (yes, fictional), to mark the return of House Targaryen. | Lit Hub

• Susan Choi on first drafts, strokes of luck, and powering through. | Lit Hub Craft

• How Bruce Lee became an international icon—and what his trajectory can tell us about our contemporary world. | Lit Hub Biography

• Math for the masses: G. Arnell Williams recommends books that give mathematics its due. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emma Donoghue, Sigmund Freud, and T. S. Eliot all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Nick Kolakowski with five key works of motorcycle noir. | CrimeReads

• Brian Michael Murphy explores the sinister history of libraries fumigating “foreign” books. | Lapham’s Quarterly

• “Since childhood, Murata has been troubled by an intense and sometimes painful effort to be an ‘ordinary earthling.’” Thu-Huong Ha profiles Sayaka Murata. | Wired

• Nate Rogers tells the story of missing “Hotel California” lyric sheets—featuring rare book dealers, Nabokov’s estate, and the “relentless” Don Henley. | Los Angeles Times

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• If you’ve never read Stephen King, Neil McRobert recommends some good places to start. | The Guardian

• In praise of Mercer Street Books in Seattle, a neighborhood staple since 2009. | The Seattle Times

• Samantha Mann talks about writing a memoir of queer childhood. | LARB

• Jessamine Chan walks us through the process of getting her book published—from first draft to Today show appearance. | The New York Times

• The poet Dean Young has died at 67. | Copper Canyon Press

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Also on Lit Hub: Carrie Jenkins on love and polyamory • What to read before and after Loving Highsmith • Read from Robert Freeman Wexler’s latest novel, The Silverberg Business