Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2022

TODAY: In 1902, the Romanian-language literary review Luceafărul begins publication in Budapest. 

• What do Jane Austen, Michael Pollan, and Mean Girls have in common? They’re all part of the literary film and TV streaming in July. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• 19 new paperbacks to stuff (nicely) in your tote bag. | The Hub

• Apocalypse (almost) now: Peter Zeihan has some thoughts about the end of the world as we know it. | Lit Hub Politics

• “I think any attempt to write the Great Anything is a bad idea.” Andy Kifer talks to William Brewer, who is NOT trying to write the great West Virginia novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Considering the role of campaign operatives, “some of the most important, yet poorly understood” roles in shaping American democracy. | Lit Hub Politics

• Chris Cander considers the perpetual relevance of “A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story by first-wave feminist Susan Glaspell. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “The name I go by reflects a past always threatening to render me invisible.” Ina Cariño on naming and claiming ancestral land. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Patrick Radden Keffe expands on the art of the “writearound.” | Lit Hub Craft

• Geraldine Brooks’ Horse, Andrew Holleran’s The Kingdom of Sand, and Ed Yong’s An Immense World all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

• Jamie Barlett on Ruja Ignatova, the crypto mogul scam artist who vanished into thin air. | CrimeReads

• Som-Mai Nguyen on diasporic literature, publishing’s tokenism, and when writers “extrapolate from orthographic coincidence and sprinkle in non-English words to assert unearned authority.” | Astra Magazine

• Sally Rooney on the emotional power of Natalia Ginzburg’s novel, All Our Yesterdays: “It was as if her writing was a very important secret that I had been waiting all my life to discover.” | The Guardian

• “We must maintain our grip on the reality in which we know we belong: the reality of a free life.” Mark Muhannad Ayyash on the dual lifelines of nature and poetry in Palestine. | The Baffler

• Don Franzen talks to Congressman Ted Lieu about his bill HR 3054—the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Why does it take so long to publish a book? Lincoln Michel breaks down publishing timelines. | Counter Craft

• Sophie Wilson considers how “fashion’s bibliophiles turn to both classic and contemporary literature for inspiration.” | i-D

• Margaret Rhodes dives down the rabbit hole of fake prop books and where they come from. | New York Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with graphic novelist Rumi Hara • “Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.” • Read from Zülfü Livaneli’s Newly Translated Novel, The Last Island (tr. Ayşe A. Şahin)

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