Lit Hub Daily: July 31, 2019

• The perils of designing a cover for a novel you truly love: Oliver Munday on redesigning Fleur Jaeggy’s 1989 masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline. | Lit Hub
• “Be warned: this is a story of staggering privilege.” Sarah Elaine Smith on the art monster, late capitalism edition. | Lit Hub
• Bigfoot, neoliberal fiction, Shirley Jackson reincarnated, and more in this month’s staff favorite stories of July. | Lit Hub
• “In an age when every detail is readily Googleable, the art of experiencing can seem unnecessary, even indulgent.” Leland Cheuk on the value of “method writing.” | Lit Hub
• Eclipsed, a wandering reading series, finds a home: On the many lives of a literary event. | Lit Hub
• How to spend a literary long weekend in Hartford, CT, more than just where Wallace Stevens walked to work! | Lit Hub
• This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Sarah Nicole Prickett on Edith Wharton, Gary Indiana, and takedown artists. | Book Marks
• Tanner Tafelski puts together a primer on the essential films in Korean Noir, from 1950s classics to present-day masterpieces. | CrimeReads
• It’s been a particularly strong year for Irish literature. This fall, a major collaboration between University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland will open to the public: the Museum of Literature Ireland. | The Irish Times
• Revisiting an overlooked book in Anthony Bourdain’s canon: Food columnist Tim Carman on Bourdain’s biography of a tough Irish cook nicknamed “Typhoid Mary.” | The Washington Post.
• Looking for a new video game to play? How about Bookbound Brigade, an upcoming side-scroller that brings various literary characters together for a quest to find the “Book of Books”—a mysterious volume that contains every book ever written. | International Business Times
• “She’s a writer who typifies what I call a posture of racial silence”: Jess Row on what Anne Tyler’s work can tell us about racism and neglect in Baltimore. | Medium
• On the resurgence of Filipino food writer Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, “a literary stylist to rival M.F.K. Fisher and a groundbreaking culinary ethnographer,” who died in 2002. | The New York Times
• Queer, subversive, and relevant: why Moby-Dick is “the novel for our times” (including the fact that you can listen, for free, to Tilda Swinton reading the first chapter). | The Guardian
• “I have been told by two different people that they fell in love with their partner because of their discussion of the semicolon.” Cecelia Watson on the semicolon, beloved and maligned. | Longreads

Also on Lit Hub: On Reading Women, Sujata Massey discusses her latest novel, The Satapur Moonstone • The necessity of revisiting Primo Levi’s classic If This Is a Man • Of poetry and pilgrimage: Queer writers staying hopeful in Madrid • Read a story by Amir Ahmadi Arian from Michigan Quarterly Review.