Lit Hub Daily: July 25, 2022

• Dwyer Murphy goes in search of the funniest crime novel ever written and starts with… Patricia Highsmith?! | Lit Hub

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• Contrary to reports, experimental fiction is alive and well in the USA: John Domini on the renaissance of the weird. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “Ani was the first truly unafraid woman I ever saw or heard. Not a trace of timidity.” Elisa Albert pays tribute to the great Ani DiFranco. | Lit Hub Music

• “The more we intrude on nature, the angrier we get with it for bothering us.” Seirian Sumner on how wasps are less bothersome—and more beautiful—than we think. | Lit Hub Science

• Lidia Yuknavitch tries to go deeper into the “polyphonic space of storytelling.” In conversation with Mitzi Rapkin. | Lit Hub Radio

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• “What makes Putin depraved, versus an American president who orders carpet-bombing or drone strikes that inevitably result in civilian deaths?” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the danger of selective empathy. | The Nation

• How to fall back in love with reading in an age of diminished attention. | Vox

• Catherine Musemeche recommends books on the lesser-known stories of women in World War II. | The Wall Street Journal

• Remembering children’s book illustrator Ronni Solbert, who said she wanted her work to “invite reflection, open perspectives and challenge the viewers’ emotional and intellectual responses.” | The New York Times

• How have recent book bans affected the comics industry? | The San Diego Union-Tribune

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• Ghost story recommendations from 1904. | The New York Times Book Review

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