Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2023

• “We were a bit broken up over the death of our black Persian cat. When I say a bit broken up I am being conventional. For us it was tragedy.” How famous writers mourned the death of their beloved pets. | Lit Hub Pets

• Julia Bryan-Wilson on the egregiously overlooked artist Louise Nevelson and how the category of art is shaped by power and gender. | Lit Hub Art

• Ali Bryan on the authenticity of small-town living. | Lit Hub

• Guy Davenport on Ronald Johnson’s transcendentalist poetry: “It is not things which poets give us but the way in which they exist for us.” | Lit Hub Poetry

• Patrick DeWitt’s The Libraianist, Charlotte Mendelson’s The Exhibitionist, and Beth Nguyen’s Owner of a Lonely Heart all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• “My seeds from the Cherokee Nation seed bank arrived a few months after the funeral.” Autumn Fourkiller chronicles her attempts to grow tobacco after returning to her late father’s home on the reservation. | Forge Project

• “Quick, write something not about the baby. Not about the baby. Not about the baby or his new feeding schedule. Or his astonishing eyes. Or how you see his face in your face now.” Brittany Hailer shares a monologue of early motherhood. | Short Reads

• In Milwaukee, a celebration of the typewriter’s long local history. | Atlas Obscura

• Ukraine and the meaning of home: Read an essay by Victoria Amelina, the acclaimed writer killed by a Russian missile strike. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with poet Sara Deniz Akant • How nonfiction writing and documentary filmmaking curate the truth • Read from Patrick DeWitt’s latest novel, The Librarianist