Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2021

• “Water was always everywhere. And we accepted it. We exalted it. We prayed to it.” Ly Tran on finding home by the water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• If you want to Read the Book That Everyone is Reading this summer (and you probably do), Emily Temple did the math for you. | Lit Hub

• Tiya Miles considers the importance of material ownership for enslaved African Americans, “who knew that people could be treated like things and things prized over people.” | Lit Hub History

• How Harold Pinter pulled off one successful literary adaptation after another and reinvented the contemporary period drama. | Lit Hub Film

• “With Zami, Lorde both named and gave a blueprint for a way of writing our existence, our truth.” Jamika Ajalon on biomythography, friendships, and queer identity. | Lit Hub

• The particular joy of biblio-memoirs: Alice Jolly recommends reading books about people reading books. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Claire Donato pays tribute to poet and climate activist Mark Baumer. | Lit Hub

• Celebrate Pride Month with these 24 new and upcoming queer crime novels, recommended by Molly Odintz. | CrimeReads

• James Wood on Francisco Goldman’s autofictional immersion, Geoff Dyer on a chronicle of a doomed Antarctic expedition, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• The horrors of incarceration: on the works from and about Guantánamo Bay. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• “It didn’t feel authentic to ignore the fact that, as hard as my childhood was, there was also a lot of joy and humor to be found there.” Danielle Henderson discusses childhood memories and her new memoir. | Bust

• Maggie Shipstead talks about the research and writing process behind her new book. | Kirkus

• Gaza’s poets speak about their lives: “Growing up in Gaza is inspiring for anyone, but especially for poets—life here is poetry blown into pieces and scattered all over the place.” | Al Jazeera

• “We all deserve to be complicated on the page.” Melissa Scholes Young on moving—and writing—across cultural divides. | Brevity

• “I wrote the sort of book I wanted to read and teach and learn from.” Clint Smith joins Nichole Chung in conversation. | Catapult

• From Ulysses to Mrs. Dalloway and more, here are ten novels told in a single day. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: E.J. Levy on being late to the party, in both publishing and parenting both • Andy Martino digs into the cheating scandal that nearly ruined baseball • Read from Kristen Arnett’s latest novel, With Teeth