Lit Hub Daily: July 12, 2022

• “The town of Steubenville has been keeping this quiet and their star football team protected. You can hide no longer.” When Anonymous focused its digital wrath on a high-profile rape case. | Lit Hub Politics

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• Seán Hewitt on taking refuge, as an anxious child, in the pixelated pastoral of The Legend of Zelda. | Lit Hub Tech

• “The moon is a lesbian, goes the meme, and it stands to reason that the ocean is a lesbian too.” Julia Armfield considers the symbolism of water in queer narratives. | Lit Hub

• Zain Khalid recommends books obsessed with the oldest (and most obvious) metaphor: death. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• This month’s 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Nada Alic, Charles Baxter, Sopan Deb, David Santos Donaldson, and Nell Stevens. | Lit Hub Questionnaire

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• Antonia Angress on muses, longing, and the value of seeing and being seen, in art and real life. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Rachel Howzell Hall has some tips for how to relax, avoid burnout, and reset your creative gears. | CrimeReads

• Good news: we’re in an indie bookstore renaissance. “As the number of stores has grown, the book selling business—traditionally overwhelmingly white—has also become much more diverse.” | The New York Times

• Jessica Winter writes about the continuum of LGBTQ children’s books, and the grave threats they face in much of the country. | The New Yorker

• In a reading slump? Here are 14 strategies to help you find your way back. | The Washington Post

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• Imani Perry on Charles Chestnutt, George Packer on Frederick Douglass, Sophie Gilbert on Sylvia Plath, and more contemporary writers reflecting on voices from The Atlantic’s archives. | The Atlantic

• “The story of English in India toggles between the conceptions of the language as an idea and as an object.” Akshya Saxena considers English and aspiration in India. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• The Authors for Abortion Access auction is raising money for the National Network of Abortion Funds Collective Power Fund and Keep Our Clinics through July 26. | Publishers Weekly

• Authors are voicing concerns about a trend of reading and returning ebooks, which is being promoted by TikTok influencers. | NPR

Also on Lit Hub: 20 new books to celebrate today • Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez talks to Jane Ciabattari • Read a story from K-Ming Chang’s new collection, Gods of Want