Lit Hub Daily: July 27, 2022

• Ideas can come from anywhere, writes TJ Klune—including from a googly-eyed Roomba. | Lit Hub Craft & Advice

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• “I didn’t understand that I was experiencing the magnified danger of being a Native-looking woman traveling alone through what some people call “fly-over country.” Sofia Ali-Khan considers how colonialism and patriarchy create enduring misery for Native American women. | Lit Hub Politics

• Antonio Padilla unveils the inner workings of black holes, “a place where there is literally no tomorrow, where the future does not exist.” | Lit Hub Space!

• What have pollsters learned from their mistakes in the 2016 election? | Lit Hub

• When women proved that math wasn’t a “man’s job.” | Lit Hub History

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• Small town gossip and suspense: Liz Alterman on whispers, rumors, and thrillers. | CrimeReads

• “The prize is set to expand to three categories, filling a gap left by the demise of the Costa book awards.” The Rathbones Folio Prize announces this year’s judges—and a few changes. | The Guardian

• Carmen Maria Machado on ego, writing careers, and waiting to debut: “The business end of writing is unavoidable, if you want people to read your work. But you must resist it, until you’re ready.” | Substack

• A look at the 135-year history of Esperanto. | Smithsonian Magazine

• “His inability to stop writing has resulted in a voice that has spoken in an almost unbroken tenor across some 15 strange and brilliant books.” Merve Emre on Gerald Murnane. | The New Yorker

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• Eleanor Johnson considers the horror and humor of Beowulf. | Public Books

• Alissa Redmond on the online trolls that are trying to shut down her independent bookstore—and how she’s fighting back. | The Charlotte Observer

• Book Soup, a beloved West Hollywood bookstore, has organized a union. | Los Angeles Times

Also on Lit Hub: On Claude Simon’s classic nouveau roman, The Flanders Road, and the possibilities of fragmented narrative • How to read to children: A brief guide from Phillip Done • Read from Dwyer Murphy’s debut novel, An Honest Living