Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2022

TODAY: In 1915, poet Margaret Walker, the first Black woman to receive a national writing prize (for her poem “For My People”), is born. 

• Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of (the second half of) 2022—or, 230 books to read before 2023. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Bull Durham writer-director Ron Shelton makes his case for baseball as the most literary sport (and explains why he got sued by Pynchon). | Lit Hub Sports

• Katherine Angel considers Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, “daddy issues,” and why we write about what we hate. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Why Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, a behind-the-scenes look at the porn industry, is the feminist film of the moment. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood and Viet Thanh Nguyen talk about sex scenes, reincarnation, and writing from the Vietnamese diaspora. | Lit Hub

• What will happen when this mass animal migration encounters modern civilization? | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Merve Emre on Cristina Rivera Garza, James Wood on Jean Rhys, Alan Light on George Michael, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Read “Peking Duck,” a short story by Ling Ma. | The New Yorker

• How has the wave of book banning affected librarians? “Some of the conflicts have gotten so heated that community members have tried to seek criminal charges.” | The New York Times

• Before there was Wordle, there was the Fifteen Puzzle: Adrienne Raphel looks at the history (and lively afterlife) of an early word challenge. | JSTOR Daily

• “Maybe if a person dates for 20 years it is inevitable that many people will become intimate with her risotto.” CJ Hauser on a personal history in the margins of cookbooks. | Bon Appétit

• Carlos Lozada close-reads Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Dobbs v. Jackson. | The Washington Post

• Following a cyberattack, Macmillan says it is processing book orders from retailers again. | Wall Street Journal

• “As an aspiring author, I want to make sure that my books include different types of people, so that children feel like they are worthy and recognized.” Marwa Bacare, a 12-year-old student, on representation in books. | WBUR

Also on Lit Hub: Writing a cookbook with chef Kwame Onwuachi • A conversation with cartoonist and comedian Luke Healy • Read from James Greer’s latest novel, Bad Eminence

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