Lit Hub Daily: July 9, 2021

TODAY: In 1867, French novelist and playwright Georges Lecomte is born.  

• In case you’ve forgotten how to socialize, here are 100 literary Jeopardy! clues to bust out in good company. | Lit Hub

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• “Prison gang life eluded Charles Manson, and even if he could have fallen into it, he sure as shit wouldn’t have been a leader.” Legendary character actor Danny Trejo looks back at his time in prison. | Lit Hub Memoir

• I’ll have a glass of alc-OH-ol: Kate Biberdorf breaks down the chemistry of your happy hour drink. | Lit Hub Science

• What the deep humanity of Jenny Erpenbeck’s fiction can show us about the possibilities of the genre. | Lit Hub Criticism

• In praise of Alice Munro’s masterful endings (and Chekhov’s, too). | Lit Hub 

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• Ultrarunning might be a young person’s sport, but try telling that to 70-something Bernd Heinrich. | Lit Hub Sports

• Cai Chongda remembers coming of age on the coast of Taiwan. | Lit Hub Memoir

• INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: A conversation with Anne Trubek, the no-bullshit voice of Belt Publishing. | Lit Hub

• A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears, Dana Spiotta’s Wayward, and Helen Scales’ The Brilliant Abyss all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• Harrison Blackman on the reimagined Mosquito Coast, where Heart of Darkness and Hitchcock are the inspirations for a thriller of capitalism gone awry. | CrimeReads

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• WATCH: Brian Broome, Nichole Perkins, Lilly Dancyger, and Courtney Cook read at the Franklin Park Reading Series. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

• “I think a lot about how we define freedom and how it’s so dependent on who’s talking about it and who’s actually embodying the freedom.” Listen to this interview with Kaitlyn Greenidge. | NPR Codeswitch

• Brian Broome talks about his most loved—and most hated—books of his childhood and high school years. | Debutiful

• Are email newsletters a “new” literary genre? | The Cut

• “The issue of consensual sex has often been presented in France as a problem of language and interpretation.” On France’s literary #MeToo reckoning. | The Baffler

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• Recognizing antiracism as an unfinished and collective project: a symposium on antiracism in the American university. | LARB

• “My hunger for precision, my ravenous inner dictionary, wants a single term, one word that gives me something to call myself.” Safia Elhillo discusses the language of identity. | Harper’s Bazaar

• “Our names, and selves, function, first, in social spaces, as reflections echoed back to us.” Victoria Princewill explores the meaning of a family name. | Granta

Also on Lit Hub: What makes Jewish literature “Jewish”? • How crafting got Kelly Williams Brown through the worst 700 days of her life • Read from Miranda Cowley Heller’s debut novel, The Paper Palace 

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