Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2023

TODAY: In 2005, Puerto Rican novelist, playwright, and critic Enrique Laguerre dies at 99.   

• Omar El Akkad chronicles a life of swimming, and the way water “pulls the punctuation out of the body’s sentences.” | Lit Hub Nature

• Amy Brady and Jeff Vandermeer discuss the history and future of ice. | Lit Hub

• “The freedoms on the other side of self-surrender are much more interesting than those that require egoistic management.” Grace E. Lavery recommends just giving in to how you write. | Lit Hub Craft

• Mirinae Lee reflects on the two-sided nature of writing about war. | Lit Hub

• An interdisciplinary friendship: Writer Rajesh Parameswaran and artist Joeun Kim Aatchim talk about artistic layering, the mortality of memories, pain, and Emily Dickinson. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• Richard Ford’s Be Mine, Sarah Viren’s To Name the Bigger Lie, and Tania James’s Loot all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

• How Martin Amis created an “aesthetic blueprint for Britpop.” | Hot Press

• Luis Alberto Urrea recommends books that capture the spirit of the borderlands. | The New York Times

• Virginia Sole-Smith and Jo Piazza discuss the beauty of books in which women unapologetically eat. | Burnt Toast

• Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey will publish a collection of “accessible poetry” so “the stigma in working-class communities about it being only for ‘posh people’ or ‘softies’ can gradually be eliminated. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Sayantani DasGupta on diverse retellings of Regency tales • Helen Ellis on writing about people you know • Read a story from Christine Sneed’s latest collection, Direct Sunlight

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