Lit Hub Daily: June 14, 2022

• Our all-time favorite summer novels: Lit Hub staff recommends 15 of their go-to books for summer reading (on the beach, or by the pool, or in the woods, or at a bar…). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin went to Fire Island. | Lit Hub Biography
• “My path to writing the big black cat started with a fat orange cat.” Nnedi Okorafor on her comics journey from Garfield to the Black Panther. | Lit Hub Comics
• It’s never too late for your first tattoo: Sari Botton on the anxiety and elation of getting inked up later in life. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Here are 20 new books coming into the world today worth your time. | The Hub
• “Every night we hear the coyotes howl.” Read letters from Ernest Hemingway to his young son, Patrick. | Lit Hub Biography
• Kirstin Chen talks to Jane Ciabattari about her new book, Counterfeit, and shattering the model minority myth. | Lit Hub
• How yoga carries its own legacies of violence: Fariha Róisín on understanding caste supremacy and the way yoga is taught in the West. | Lit Hub
• “My theory about auditions is that if I’m not where I belong, I suck. Totally. That’s always been true.” Kenny Loggins tells it like it is in his new memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Leslie McFarlane on the birth of the Hardy Boys. | CrimeReads
• Jo Livingstone considers “a slippery little genre”: the celebrity memoir. | SSENSE
• “We are all hostages on board a plane that has been hijacked by a madman.” Vadim Smyslov talks to writers and artists about Russia’s “cultural brain drain.” | GQ
• “At times, it is obvious how hard she is trying to build something beautiful, but most of the time it feels effortless.” Kelsey McKinney on Tove Ditlevsen writing of the beautiful mundane. | Defector
• Fernanda Melchor on navigating a corrupt criminal justice system as a “go-between.” | Words Without Borders
• “Maybe … what I need to build is a spiritual home for a book.” Caren Beilin talks to Patrick Cottrell. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Here’s what was inside the books Pablo Picasso created to help his daughter learn to draw. | The Guardian
• Ashawnta Jackson discusses the Los Angeles Renaissance and the Black artists who moved it forward. | JSTOR Daily

Also on Lit Hub: Five authors, seven questions: Featuring Keith Gessen, Leila Mottley, Ashley Hutson, and more • Veronica Esposito reads Catherine McCormack and Emily Ratajkowski • New Lisa Taddeo: read “Forty-Two” from the collection Ghost Love.