Lit Hub Daily: June 14, 2019

• The hero we need: Marjorie Liu on how Keanu Reeves is demolishing all our dumb stereotypes. | Lit Hub
• HAPPY FATHER’S DAY: John James on learning about the death of his father in a poem by his grandmother · A brief literary history of terrible dads · Dean Kuipers on the things you talk about to avoid really talking · Sybille Lacan on the absences of her famous father · When Red Sox great Luis Tiant was reunited with his father after 14 years.  | Lit Hub
• Fighting to save the real-life pharmacy from James Joyce’s Ulysses. | Lit Hub
• This month, the Lit Hub staff recommends Love Island, Ocean Vuong, L.A. Noir, and more. | Lit Hub
• New titles from Aleksandar Hemon, Brian Evenson, and Mona Awad all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
• The picture-perfect veneer of the seaside never fails to elevate a thriller. Janna King explores the crime fiction and seaside locales that turn up the heat. | CrimeReads
• “It hadn’t occurred to me until I read them that antiwar novels could be funny as well as serious.” Salman Rushdie on Slaughterhouse-Five. | The New Yorker
• “Not everything is going to be loved by everyone, especially when this everyone has been told they have to on the basis that they’ll find reflections of themselves there.” On Fleabag, Normal People, “Cat Person,” and the problem with our cultural insistence on the  “Archetypal Millennial Woman.” | Another Gaze
• The secrets behind literary subtitles, or why subtitles can be so long. | Jewish Journal
• A new imprint, RealClearBooks, is hoping to perfect the model of politically-focused, self-published books in time for the 2020 election cycle. | Publishing Perspectives
• “I knew that someday, that part of his collection would end up on my own bookshelves. I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.” One woman’s quest for the perfect shelf to hold the books she inherited from her father. | Curbed
• “For a gay writer, the irony is not lost on me.” Ocean Vuong talks to Seth Meyers about writing his debut novel in a (literal) closet. | YouTube
• “There’s something wonderful about a teacher who insists he knows as little, or less than you. It makes you feel like maybe you can write.” Alexander Chee, Marie Howe, and others reflect on Denis Johnson’s life and work. | Longreads

Also on Lit Hub: On Keen On, Noah Feldman wonders what James Madison would think of contemporary America • Red Sox great Luis Tiant on reuniting with his father after 14 years • Writing during naptime: a parent’s practice • Read a story from Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s collection Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory.