Lit Hub Daily: June 14, 2018
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 2002, Caribbean-American poet, essayist, and activist June Jordan dies.
- Happy World Cup day! 32 teams, 32 books you should read. Obviously. | Lit Hub
- Sayaka Murata on what it’s like to (literally) fall in love with a convenience store. | Lit Hub
- On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Tayari Jones and DaMaris B. Hill talk to V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk about mass incarceration and writing about the prison state. | Lit Hub
- Bookseller Thomas Wickersham on Anthony Bourdain’s lifelong love affair with crime fiction. | CrimeReads
- From Alexandra Kleeman on Kathy Acker to Hannah Black on Caryl Phillips, the best literary criticism of the week. | Book Marks
- R.O. Kwon, Fatima Farheen Mirza, Tommy Orange, and more: the best debut fiction of the summer. | Poets & Writers
- A more tender face of grief: on three books about the Grenfell fire, one year later. | The Times Literary Supplement
- The Paris Review has launched a new column dedicated to underread female authors, starting with Olivia Manning (bonus: 10 lost women’s classics). | The Paris Review, The Guardian
- What to expect when you’re expecting… your first book. (Sorry.) | Lit Hub
- Brush off your wallets: new details have emerged about Marlon James’s forthcoming fantasy series, which he describes as “African Game of Thrones.” | EW
- Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf’s love of gardening. | Lit Hub
- Jia Tolentino on Younger, “a Gossip Girl for the publishing industry—a glossy, winking take on a bounded universe of writers and editors and marketing campaigns.” | The New Yorker
- The sport was dirty from top to bottom: On this, the first day of the 2018 World Cup, read an excerpt from Ken Bensinger’s Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal. | BuzzFeed Reader
- The Brooklyn Book Festival lineup, which includes Jennifer Egan, Carmen Maria Machado, and over 150 other authors, has been announced. | Brooklyn Book Festival
Also on Literary Hub: A novel in praise of movies: On Walker Percy’s classic, The Moviegoer · Lower wages, more injuries, what’s not to love about the gig economy? · A short story by Nick White from his collection, Sweet and Low
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