Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2022

TODAY: In 1866, notable friend of animals Beatrix Potter is born.   

• “The rings of Saturn share a structure with the way we think, the way I write, floating from part to part, cell to cell, ice crystal to ice crystal across the synapse.” In the first of a new series, 13 Ways of Looking, Samantha Hunt shares the visual inspirations behind her latest book. | Lit Hub

• Lio Min explores gender and sexuality within anime—the boundary-pushing, “ascendant art form of our era.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• A reading list of journalists who (successfully) turned to fiction. | Lit Hub

• How growing up between Kiowa and Cherokee identities helped Oscar Hokeah tell a multicultural Indigenous story. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Remembering Daphne Athas—writer, teacher, adventurer, and friend. | Lit Hub

• THE ANNOTATED NIGHTSTAND: What Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is reading now and next. | Lit Hub

• Christopher Bollen on an NYC noir, Laura Miller on a Zodiac Killer investigation, Becca Rothfeld on a sex masterpiece, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Shop Talk: Dwyer Murphy talks to Eli Cranor about writing routines, classic crime fiction, and pickup basketball. | CrimeReads

• “Above all, her work is an act of bearing witness: a committed and steadfast response to the social injustice she saw all around her.” Francesca Wade considers the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser. | The Baffler

• Gabe Montesani recommends nine books about the beauty of chosen family, “a lifesaving discovery.” | Electric Lit

• Stevie Nicks is going to star… in a comic book? | Entertainment Weekly

• “For years, he provided creative fuel for his father, who depicted him in several books until he faded from his writings.” Alex Vadukul on the life and death of Daniel Auster. | The New York Times

• Maeve Higgins looks at Republicans’ war on libraries. | The Guardian

• Rapid-fire book recommendations from Samantha Irby. | ELLE

• Jeremy Dauber explores the “slow embrace of the comic-book medium by elite audiences.” | The Atlantic

• A “Banned Camp” in Austin, Texas is helping kids read and learn about challenged titles. | NBC News

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of political imaginaries • Fred Goodman on the big tent of rock and roll on film • Read from Andrea J. Buchanan’s new novel, Five-Part Invention

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