Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2020

• Chrome-plated pistols and pink polos: Rebecca Solnit on the face of elite panic in the USA. | Lit Hub Politics
• “Trauma has a way of bringing us together and keeping us apart. Sometimes at the same time.” From Newark, Nyle Fort writes to his nephew. | Lit Hub Politics
• “White people never wanted poetry from me; they wanted my pain.” Shayla Lawson on the colonization of poetry. | Lit Hub
• Shannon Reed recalls the lowest moment of her teaching career—and the beauty of laughing about it afterward. | Lit Hub
• Don’t leave your reading to chance! The universe has signed off on this month’s astrological book recommendations. | Lit Hub
• The weather is now political: Eric Holthaus on the inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• A search for symmetry, the beauty of nature, and work-as-refuge: on the kinship between poets and mathematicians. | Lit Hub Science
• “She looked like the great-grandmother of every whore in the world”: in honor of James M. Cain’s 128th birthday, here’s a 1934 review of The Postman Always Rings Twice. | Book Marks
• Doctor and mystery writer Lydia Kang with all the fiction you need to immerse yourself in medicine’s long and messy past. | CrimeReads
• George Orwell was a police officer in British India and quit after five years. That experience shaped his views about restrictions on freedom of speech and individualism. | Slate
• Sir Patrick Stewart, aka Captain Jean-Luc Picard, is writing a memoir. | Chicago Tribune
• Andy Warhol’s tongue-in-cheek 1975 book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, might make you rethink what is possible to do in isolation. | The New York Times
• Here are 11 essential books to read by Black Canadian authors. | Now Toronto
• A New York judge has temporarily blocked the release of Mary Trump’s tell-all book; Simon
  & Schuster plans to “immediately appeal this decision.” | The Wall Street Journal
• In a newly rediscovered letter, Frederick Douglass argued that a monument to Abraham Lincoln did not tell “the whole truth” about Emancipation, and wrote that he wanted to see a monument to a Black person “erect on his feet like a man.” | Smithsonian Magazine
• “This is what it means to celebrate. How desire and disgust can feel so closely related, surrounding self-actualization with self-hatred.” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on trauma, celebration, and Pride. | Boston Review

Also on Lit Hub: Phuc Tran: In search of the open-armed America of 1975 • Capturing the soul of Fire Island: Attitude without judgment • “Wherever Thou Wilt Touch a Bruise Is Found”: A story by Quintan Ana Wikswo from Conjunctions:74.