Lit Hub Daily: August 4, 2023

• How author Aimie K. Runyan found a new way to approach story for her “reluctant reader” children. | Lit Hub Parenting

• “My wife was actually kind of freaked out by how happy I was during that time.” Adrian Tomine on the delight of collaborating on the film adaptation of his graphic novel Shortcomings. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

• Madeline Ashby revisits G. K. Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill: “This is cosplay taken to the level of governance, a utopia for one.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• Wylie Dufresne on the fun, never-ending process of becoming a chef. | Lit Hub

• Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake, Jamel Brinkley’s Witness, and Yepoka Yeebo’s Anansi’s Gold all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Alexis Gunderson considers the funny, romantic, and “regular, schmegular” second season of Good Omens. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Why read Milton? Ed Simon makes the case. | The Millions

• Take a look inside a Brooklyn studio shared by a bunch of children’s book legends. | The New York Times

• “Marías’s genre outings have been typified by a magpie mentality that rarely ends up managing its many interests in anything resembling a unified way.” Bailey Trela on the spy novels of Javier Marías. | The Baffler

• Dig into a vintage menu collection. | Atlas Obscura

• Joyce Carol Oates on the prose fictions of Rachel Ingalls, which “famously resist description, let alone classification.” | Times Literary Supplement

Also on Lit Hub: On the pleasure of unexpected translations • Jimin Han on letting your experiences simmer • Read from David Connor’s debut novel, Oh God, the Sun Goes