Lit Hub Daily: December 5, 2018

• Because you asked for it, here are the biggest nonfiction bestsellers of the past 100 years (key takeaway: Magic Eye owned the 1990s). | Lit Hub
• “Eternity, in Johnson’s work, is a thing you can hold in your hands.” Looking for God in the writing of Denis Johnson. | Lit Hub
• Kristen Arnett presents an incomplete list of non-book objects you can check out of the library (which definitely does not include her personal toothbrush). | Lit Hub
• Literary horoscopes, or: a very scientific list of books to read this month, based on your zodiac sign. | Lit Hub
• “All sorts of interesting events can come from desperation.” John Wray in conversation with Brad Listi on this week’s Otherppl podcast. | Lit Hub
• “What can a writer do?” Patrick Chamoiseau on the moral desperation of the migrant crisis. | Lit Hub
• As the year draws to a close, the CrimeReads editors and contributors recommend 62 of their very favorite crime and mystery books of 2018. | CrimeReads
• Next up in our end-of-year roundup of the Best Reviewed Books of 2018, we’ve got Graphic Literature and Literature in Translation. | Book Marks
• “Where McKibbens draws the line is the tattoo, which she considers unforgivable on an aesthetic level if not a moral one.” The Pushcart-nominated poet who plagiarized multiple others (and tattooed one of the lifted lines on her arm). | Vulture
• “I thought of Conversations as my trial novel, so it gave me a huge amount of permission to write the same thing over again.” An interview with Sally Rooney. | Irish Times
• Seeking an old-lady canon: eight “coming-of-death novels” that spotlight older women. | Electric Literature
• A Public Space, the literary magazine founded by former Paris Review editor Brigid Hughes, is branching out into book publishing. | Publishers Weekly
• On My Brilliant Friend’s Michele Solara, who “looks like he was styled by an evil mortician.” | The Outline
• “I develop a natural continuity between the real and the fictive”: An interview with Enrique Vila-Matas | Tin House
• What does it mean to write about public land after Edward Abbey’s Desert Cabal? | Pacific Standard

Also on Lit Hub: Announcing the 2018 Reading Women Award winners • Mapping the personalities of great cities • Read from A Ladder to the Sky