Lit Hub Daily: July 2, 2019

• This collection contains multitudes: celebrate Walt Whitman’s biennial with an exhibit of his life and works, on display at the Morgan Library. | Lit Hub
• “Grief calls for muscles for which no fitness center has the right exercise machines.” On what you can find mushroom hunting in Central Park. | Lit Hub
• “They are compelled to return, these revenants, some to watch, some to wait, some to want and want and not to have.” Mamta Chaudhry on five novels narrated by ghosts. | Lit Hub
• When your White Whale is striped bass: Janet Messineo on the obsession that follows losing a big fish. | Lit Hub
• A poem by Paisley Rekdal from Nightingale. | Lit Hub
• 5 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Beach Reads for July: feat. Chuck Wendig’s sleeping sickness saga, Helen Phillips’ eerie meditation on motherhood, and an anthology of lunar sci-fi. | Book Marks
• From On The Waterfront to The Warriors, David Gordon recommends 12 films that depict the gritty realities of life in New York City. | CrimeReads
• Neil Gaiman’s beloved comic Sandman is going to be a (very expensive) Netflix show. | The Hub
• “I was struck, again, at how work can become such a yoke for a black man.” Edward P. Jones on rereading James Alan McPherson’s Hue and Cry. | The Paris Review
• “I built the novel to be sturdy, to last.” Read an interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin. | The Believer
• “Her work is so consistently surprising that reading it is something like being confronted with a brilliant child, innocent in the sense of being uncorrupted by habit, instruction, or propriety.” Deborah Eisenberg on Natalia Ginzburg. | The New York Review of Books
• 50 years after Stonewall, Brown University’s John Hay Library has proven to be a shrine (and scholarly goldmine) to gay pulp fiction from the last half of the 20th century, boasting more than 5,000 paperbacks. | 90.9 WBUR
• A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum reveals Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak’s interest in set design for opera and ballet. It includes some of the author’s sketches, storyboards and paintings. | Smithsonian
• “All this Audenization of the Great Books relieves those books of the burden of being monuments and lets them breathe.” On the joys of teaching The Auden Course in Oklahoma. | The Hedgehog Review

Also on Lit Hub: Barbara Bourland on value and excess in the art market • Ten books you should read in July • Read a story by Brian Evenson from the current issue of Conjunctions.