Lit Hub Daily: July 19, 2017

• Rebecca Solnit on a childhood of reading, wandering, and getting lost in libraries (and in the forests surrounding them). | Literary Hub
• Celebrities really aren’t like us at all: the more fame changes, the more it stays the same. | Literary Hub
• Beach reads. About murder. At the actual beach. | Literary Hub
• Writers: embrace your insomnia, don’t fight it. | Literary Hub
• As crazy as it sounds: if you’re going to write two books at a time, why not YA and true crime? | Literary Hub
• A brief history of playing dress up: on tableau vivant and the fine art of staged photography. | Literary Hub
• A rebuttal of the green light that symbolizes Gatsby’s dream: Katie Kitamura on Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals. | Book Marks
• Junot Díaz will publish a picture book, which “grew out of a promise that he made to his goddaughters two decades ago.” | The New York Times
• “As a novelist, I never want to write about ‘issues’ like ‘the Indian family.’ What I want to write about is the air we breathe.” An interview with Arundhati Roy. | The Nation
• Nicole Chung on taking her daughter to see “a company teeming with Asian American Shakespeareans” and the importance of representation. | Hazlitt
• Touring the Met on the 50th anniversary of the publication of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, “a masterpiece of graceful, efficient exposition.” | The New Yorker
• “He experiences the hallucinatory impression that he is arriving on the continent for the first time, since so much is a mirror of before.” A short story by Jeffery Renard Allen. | Granta
• On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Bank of England unveiled a (controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect) new banknote bearing her likeness. | NPR
• In response to the news about a potential bidding war for James Comey’s book, former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page has announced his own project, which he claims will “prove infinitely more accurate, exciting and insightful.” | BuzzFeed News

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