Lit Hub Daily: July 11, 2022

• Dan O’Brien defends a much-maligned performance style: poet voice. | Lit Hub

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• “As he assembles his cast of heroes, he writes of the swimmer as protagonist: swimmers that have grown heroic in their own heads.” Daniel Shailer in praise of Charles Sprawson’s Haunts of the Black Masseur, the greatest book about swimming ever written. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Jacinda Townsend on what we stand to gain by single women participating in politics. | Lit Hub Politics

• “Like life, writing forces a series of choices that bring you to an ending.” Diksha Bashu contemplates the personalization of craft. | Lit Hub Craft

• Isabel Kaplan and Alison B. Hart talk about women in Hollywood and working in a system “designed to prohibit change.” | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• “I believe if we look hard enough, we can find glimpses of him, at times in the most surprising of places.” Cornelia Powers finds echoes of C.S. Lewis in the work of Sally Rooney. | Image

• Joshua Cohen discusses religion, rejection, and prizes. | Wall Street Journal

• “Perhaps we love Attenborough because he is an advocate and practitioner of a special way of seeing and relating.” Rachel Riederer on David Attenborough and the lost art of looking at nature. | Dissent

• This one’s for the overthinkers: from Sheila Heti to Sarah Manguso, Nada Alic recommends nine books about women stuck in their own minds. | Electric Lit

• Ashawnta Jackson breaks down the intersection of Motown and gay liberation. | JSTOR Daily

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• “Malayalam has a literary heritage stretching back centuries.” Aditya Narayan Sharma on its rich history. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: Five audiobooks by authors with disabilities • Booksellers from Porter Square Books share their favorites • Read from Jean Thompson’s latest novel, The Poet’s House