Lit Hub Daily: June 21, 2017

• 22 of your favorite writers on what they’re reading this summer (and what you should read). | Literary Hub
• Some of history’s most murderous tyrants also happened to be failed writers. | Literary Hub
• A close reading of one of the most beautiful sentences Virginia Woolf ever wrote. | Literary Hub
• Katie MacBride would like to have a serious conversation about library security. | Literary Hub
• Darcey Steinke and Jill Eisenstadt talk Brooklyn, writing as mothers, and Manhattan publishing parties. | Literary Hub
• On the long, varied, and occasionally sexist history of the beach read, a category with “no single, standard definition.” | Broadly
• “Any writer who is worth anything is outside for some reason.” A profile of What We Lose author Zinzi Clemmons. | Vogue
• It breaks my heart to leave you here: an excerpt from artist and activist Kate Evans’s new graphic novel Threads: From the Refugee Crisis. | VICE
• “Looking back, I think it was my mother’s highly dysfunctional way to tell me, to warn me, about what a man can be.” Sherman Alexie speaks with Terry Gross about his new memoir, You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me. | NPR
• “A people from whom so much has been stolen are understandably protective of their possessions, especially the ineffable kind.” Zadie Smith on Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket. | Harper’s
• A deeper and more human knowledge: Matthew Zapruder explains the value in writing—and teaching—poems. | PBS
• “His enterprise was the transmission of a joy that surpasses words.” Claire Messud on Henri Matisse. | New York Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: Hans Christian Andersen’s adult novel, on its own for the first time · On Jeannette and Richard Seaver’s lifelong love affair with publishing · “Today in Post-Apocalyptic Problems,” from Elizabeth Crane’s new story collection, Turf.