Lit Hub Daily: July 18, 2019

• CJ Hauser has some pretty convincing evidence that her niece is the reincarnation of Shirley Jackson. | Lit Hub
• “People who do unspeakable things are often haunted by them for the rest of their lives. The rest of us, it seems to me, are more likely to be haunted by what we’ve left undone.” Richard Russo on the power of regret. | Lit Hub
• How does a lobster wind up with the Pepsi logo “tattooed” on its shell? And more upsetting questions about our plastic-clogged oceans. | Lit Hub
• The fictional singer-songwriter who got her own real album: Laura Barnett on creating the musician she’d always dreamed about. | Lit Hub
• A guide to Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire series (just in time for “Longmire Days” fan fest in Wyoming), from bookseller Scott Montgomery. | CrimeReads
• Colson Whitehead as the steward of painful histories, Svetlana Alexievich’s enchanted naturalism, Chuck Klosterman’s curious fictions, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• Here’s the story of the tiny book that flew to the moon with Buzz Aldrin (and might still be there if it weren’t for those lunar sticklers at NASA). | The Boston Globe
• “I’ve been thinking about white male privilege, and I wonder if you think about yours or your son’s?” Claudia Rankine asks directly (and indirectly). | The New York Times Magazine
• Andrea Camilleri, the creator of the beloved Inspector Montalbano books, has died at age 93. | The Guardian
• “I had a sense that we are—for any given moment in time—how we act.” Chia-Chia Lin reflects on her time impersonating the ultra-rich in Macau. | The New Yorker
• From Ted Chiang stories to a Nnedi Okorafor trilogy, here are some books to get you excited about the moon landing anniversary—as if you needed any more reason. | Chicago Tribune
• Diversity in children’s literature has improved greatly over the last 50 years, with stories that explore the Civil Rights movement, immigration experiences, and more. | Datebook

Also on Lit Hub: John Waters talks working for Mary Oliver on A Phone Call from Paul • On The Maris Review, Marcy Dermansky on writing self-centered men in post-Trump America • Cherise Wolas discusses her many career paths on But That’s Another Story • The compelling tales we tell of fictional tigers • 11 literary parties we’re sad to have missed • Read an excerpt from Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s debut novel Stubborn Archivist.