Lit Hub Daily: July 27, 2021

• “Each revision, ideally, gets us closer to the poem we sense is there, waiting.” Maggie Smith on how to revise poems without losing the spark. | Lit Hub Craft

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• Celebrate New Books Tuesday by bulking up that TBR list. | The Hub

• Amanda Kabak recommends eight books about the messiness and beauty of queer life, from WWII London to a wayfaring spacecraft. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “What happened in the Francis kitchen was as much a part of the Southampton Rebellion as Nat Turner’s initial Cabin Pond meeting.” Vanessa M. Holden tells the overlooked story of two women in the 1831 uprising. | Lit Hub History

• Dave Sheinin pays tribute to one of the great sportscasters of all time, Pedro Gomez. | Lit Hub Sports

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• “What if people found out I stuttered and no longer wanted me to be their doctor?” Leana Wen, MD, on overcoming and eventually embracing her speech disorder. | Lit Hub

• “Hilarity ensues. And ensues. And ensues some more.” Darynda Jones with comical mysteries to keep you laughing the rest of the summer. | CrimeReads

• A month of literary listening: AudioFile’s best audiobooks of July. | Book Marks

• WATCH: Quan Huynh talks to Ona Russell about finding freedom from behind bars. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• What happens when militaries borrow ideas for high-tech weaponry from science fiction but fail to consider the accompanying moral lessons? (Hint: it’s not great.) | The Conversation

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• “If we get it wrong—if we stay in our silly old mindset—then it’s likely that the dystopias we fear will come to pass.” Jeanette Winterson on AI, book-burning, and the realities of love. | The Guardian

• Why LeVar Burton is a natural fit to be the permanent host of Jeopardy! | Vox

• How Francince Prose wrote her new historical fiction novel. | Shondaland

• “Setting aside an afternoon to read is a fundamental experience of getting older. It’s a marker of a different kind of youth.” Nikki Darling on The Baby-Sitters Club and a (preteen, Xenniel) room of one’s own. | The Believer

• In praise of human goofiness: Looking for the funny in memoir. | Cleaver Magazine

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• Richard Price, author of the Adventures In Censorship blog, talks about book challenges and which topics are most frequently targeted. | NPR

• Omar El Akkad confronts the role of politics in his writing and the feeling “of not being sure if you have the right to do any of this.” | Interview Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: How Nora Zelevansky’s subway ritual became a storytelling device • Alix Ohlin on the richness of dysfunctional family dynamics • Read from Yan Ge’s newly translated novel, Strange Beasts of China (tr. Jeremy Tiang)