Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2017

• How I accidentally became a war correspondent: Lynda Schuster on her reporting journey from the wheat fields of Kansas to war-torn Central America. | Literary Hub
• Judith Butler on the poetry of Guantanamo. | Literary Hub
• Walking across Europe to find a character: Jason Hewitt’s step-by-step journey through his own novel. | Literary Hub
• Drawing the rise of fascism: one illustrator’s obsession with 1930s Berlin. | Literary Hub
• Sex dolls, spoon benders, sharks, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• A recently discovered book by Maurice Sendak, Presto and Zesto in Limboland, will be published in 2018. | Publishers Weekly
• “We’re meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch or dinner, or took a coffee break, or stopped for a hot dog on the street, or wandered downstairs for a few spoonfuls of chocolate pudding in the middle of the night.” Emily Gould interviews culinary historian Laura Shapiro. | Eater
• Few writers have watched and captured women with such conspicuous pleasure: Parul Sehgal on the work of Daphne du Maurier. | The New York Times
• “They brought Khayyám out from beneath the soil—drooping, dusty, and worn of flesh—and carried him to the courtroom, where he appeared before the judge.” A short story by Zakaria Tamer, illustrated by Molly Crabapple. | BuzzFeed Reader
• “Every nuance, every adjustment to the ritual, alters the language that comes out of me.” On the poetry of CAConrad. | The Paris Review
• Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich: A parodic letter by Jane Austen is going up for auction. | The Guardian
• From A is for Activist to Rad Women Worldwide, books that teach children the importance of social justice (or, alternatively, rocket science). | NPR

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