Lit Hub Daily: July 11, 2019

• “A better title would have been To Disappoint a Reader.” The 50 best one-star Amazon reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird. | Lit Hub
• Mutton Whoppers, Speculoos milkshakes, and Le Royale Cheese: on the uncanny global adaptability of American fast food. | Lit Hub
• “This improbably plotted show has sparked something fantastic in me, giving me permission to go wild with my narratives.” Marcy Dermansky on how General Hospital inspired her novel. | Lit Hub
• Read a poem by Charles Simic from his collection Come Closer and Listen. | Lit Hub
• Finding small comfort in the panic of Shirley Jackson: Miciah Bay Gault on the high anxiety of The Haunting of Hill House. | Lit Hub
• Helen Phillips’ eerie novel of maternal fear, Lisa Taddeo’s indelible portraits of sexual desire, Rudyard Kipling’s Americophilia, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• “Boo Radley is one of the great red herring thriller characters of all time.” A roundtable discussion with nominees for the ITW Awards ahead of this weekend’s Thrillerfest. | CrimeReads
• The Jack London novel you’ve never heard of that influenced a century of dystopian fiction. | Tor
• “At the very same time that we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity—languages are dying at an alarming rate.” On the intersection of climate and language, and how ignoring one might mean losing both. | JSTOR Daily
• “There is a sense that one might cross a linguistic or philosophical boundary by mistake”: #MeToo, cancel culture, generational divides—will the “moral earthquake” of our times affect the literature we read and publish? | The Guardian
• Lukas Bärfuss has become the fourth German-language Swiss author to win the Georg Büchner Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for literature written in German. | Swiss Info
• “I can’t be nostalgic for 1966, because basically what you’re saying is Wasn’t Baltimore great when it was white?” A walking tour of Baltimore with Laura Lippman. | Vulture
• You know you don’t own your e-books  . . . right? | The Chicago Tribune
• Brian De Palma, director of Scarface and Mission: Impossible (among others) will publish his debut novel next spring. | EW

Also on Lit Hub: On Otherppl, Erin Hosier talks deadlines and head games •  Julia Phillips on life in a remote post-Soviet Russian town, on The Maris Review • On The Literary Life, Scott Miller talks to Mitchell Kaplan about leadership and the business of books •  Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the role of the military in American politics, on Fiction/Non/Fiction • Daido Moriyama, legendary street photographer, on how to take a snapshot • Peter Edelman on America’s war on the poor • Read an excerpt from Howard Norman’s new novel The Ghost Clause.