Lit Hub Daily: July 6, 2021

• The Great Second Half Preview is here, AKA 222 books we want to read before 2022. | Lit Hub

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• Queer genealogies: Why William di Canzio wrote a novel about Alec, the second half of the love affair in E.M. Forster’s Maurice. | Lit Hub

• “The enormity of what had happened was enough to convince everybody that civilization had been shipwrecked.” And yet, after WWI, Paris danced. | Lit Hub 

• Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi discuss Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto’s memoir about Japanese immigrants in 19th-century Ohio. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Helen Scales considers the high stakes of deep-sea mining. | Lit Hub Nature

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• “I didn’t always think of depression as an experience. I thought of it as something I was.” Matt Haig on the downfalls of binary thinking. | Lit Hub

• New titles by Becky Chambers, Matt Bell, Chuck Wendig, and more Sci-Fi and Fantasy books to help you escape the July heat. | Book Marks

• Strega Nona, Tender is the Night, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and more rapid-fire book recs from Katie Crouch. | Book Marks

• “When I thought about why I was writing this book, I thought about what I wanted to say, and in all aspects of this book, one of the main points I wanted to drive home is that children have a rich inner life.” Ashley C. Ford talks about craft, mother-daughter relationships, and her writing influences. | The Rumpus

• Don’t know where to start with Gabriel García Márquez? Check out this reading list. | Los Angeles Times

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• On the brilliance of Meredith Alling’s “Other Babies.” | The Offing

• “Hill was never a consensus poet.” On the work and legacy of Geoffrey Hill, five years after his death. | Times Literary Supplement

Also on Lit Hub: Catherine Raven on interspecies empathy and befriending a wild fox • A poem by Kendra Allen • Read from Violet Kupersmith’s debut novel Build Your House Around My Body