Lit Hub Daily: August 3, 2022

• Jana Casale considers the particular agony of visiting a bookstore as a debut author. | Lit Hub Writing Life

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• Meet the Radical Books Collective, a group of global south writers who are decolonizing literature. | Lit Hub

• Emma Seckle muses on the Celtic legend of an airborne fairy, and how history, myth, and folklore shape contemporary stories. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “What better way to get to know a person, and to understand him, then to deconstruct his reading book by book?” Susan Coll on falling in love with—and at—a bookstore. | Lit Hub Bookstores

• From blood magic to a pandemic of sleeplessness, here are 10 new SFF books to augment your August. | Book Marks

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• Hayley Scrivenor on Greek choruses and collective narration. | CrimeReads

• Revisiting Judith Rossner’s 1983 novel, August, which “gets its title from the cruellest month, in psychoanalytic terms, when many therapists, especially the fancy Manhattan ones, tend to take their vacations.” | The New Yorker

• “I can’t write today. All I can do is masturbate while listening to Monchy & Alexandra.” Andrea Abreu on internet searches and intimacy. | Astra Magazine

• “What I want to tell you is as delicate as life itself. And I want to use the delicacy that exists inside me along with the peasant coarseness that is my saving grace.” Read selections from Clarice Lispector’s long-running Saturday newspaper column. | The Paris Review

• Rhian Sasseen considers Izumi Suzuki’s “brash, clever, odd works of science fiction, propelled by an irreverent kind of up yours! energy.” | The Baffler

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• Anna Sergeeva talks to editor Olena Rybka about publishing books in a time of war. and Ukraine’s literary identity. | Guernica

• Look inside librarian Sharon McKellar’s collection of the many items people leave behind in returned library books. | NPR

• Read Shira Ovide’s analysis of the unspoken role that Amazon is playing in the Penguin Random House antitrust trial. | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: Lynne Tillman on watching a mother’s final days • Read a new poem by Claire Schwartz • Read from Andrea Abreu’s newly translated novel, Dogs of Summer (tr. Julia Sanches)