Lit Hub Daily: July 3, 2018

• Francine Prose: It’s much harder than it looks to write clearly. Here’s how. | Lit Hub
• Happy Fourth of July: 9 Great American Novels by authors not born in America. | Lit Hub
• On the origins of the weird and wild traditions of American roadside attractions. | Lit Hub
• What can we learn from the campus radicals of 1968? (Hint: not civility.) | Lit Hub
• The Last Cruise author Kate Christensen on her 5 favorite true-life accounts of gnarly, treacherous, inspiring, and/or dramatic sea voyages. | Book Marks
• Celebrate the 4th of July early with 21 crime novels set during revolutions. | CrimeReads
• “I just want to see the edge of the building, and then I want to go build it myself.” Ariel Levy profiles Ottessa Moshfegh. | The New Yorker
• After allegations of sexual assault led to the cancellation of the 2018 Nobel Prize, the New Academy—a group of over 100 Swedish cultural figures—plans to award an alternative Nobel prize in literature. | The Guardian
• “In his writing, as in his artwork, you can feel the presence of someone for whom there is no fear of breaking the rules.” Hanya Yanagihara on the artist David Wojnorawicz. | The Paris Review
• From Madeline Miller’s mythic retelling Circe to Leslie Jamison’s meta-memoir of addiction, Entertainment Weekly critics name their 10 favorite books of 2018 so far. | EW
• “The enemy of poetry is fascism.” On Neruda as a political poet, and what his popular legacy leaves out. | The New Republic
• “Most nights before I fall asleep . . . I can feel a knife floating above my right shoulder.” Read an excerpt from Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This? | The Cut
• Janet Malcolm claims her place “in the annals of horsing around” by admitting that in her book on photography she successfully passed off a snapshot by her husband Gardner Botsford as a professional work of art. | The New York Review of Books

Also on Literary Hub: When “dumb” is a badge of honor: Translating experimental writer Rainald Goetz · New poetry by Jenny Xie from her collection Eye Level · New fiction by Daphne Kalotay from the latest issue of Consequence