Lit Hub Daily: June 21, 2022

“By forgetting that language is created, we risk allowing the influence of language to become absolute.” Marina Manoukian on the etymologies and linguistic evolutions of “family.” | Lit Hub Criticism

Here are 13 new books out today to get your summer started right. | The Hub

“I disconnect the part of my brain that thinks about how many people could be watching a show when I’m writing it.” Talking to showrunner Sera Gamble about poetry, rejection, and her work on The Magicians and You. | Lit Hub TV

To the stranger who returned my lost notebook… Leigh N. Gallagher on losing—and recovering—an “archive of feelings.” | Lit Hub

A brief history (and personal account) of what it means to stutter. | Lit Hub

What we know (and don’t know) about fat: on the evolving science around what we eat. | Lit Hub Food

What a global approach to writing teaches us: Ru Freeman on crossing borders and making connections. | Lit Hub Craft

“Will there be war in the morning?” Tilar J. Mazzeo on Galeazzo Ciano and his wife (and Mussolini’s daughter) Edda. | Lit Hub History

Why failure is necessary for creative growth: Brandon Stosuy on making space for mistakes and setbacks. | Lit Hub

“The gift that Eso Won has been to Los Angeles—its grassroots but elevated mission of informing and bettering Black folks through the written word—will keep on giving.” Erin Aubry Kaplan looks back at the legacy of Eso Won Books. | Los Angeles Times

As hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection continue, NPR recommends books to help understand the events of that day (and what followed). | NPR

Introducing the latest weapon in our fight against climate change: comic books. | Forbes

“Feeling thoroughly bored with yourself can be revelatory.” Margo Jefferson and Leslie Jamison in conversation. | Granta

Laura Miller reads the new memoir from James Patterson, “a man so relentlessly bullish on storytelling seems never to have formulated the story of his own life.” | The New Yorker

“At Bertram’s Hotel allows us to have our nostalgic cake and read it too.” Briallen Hopper considers the pleasures of a letter-known Agatha Christie novel. | Public Books

“We don’t look at the physical world as we once did, and so we don’t write about it as we once did.” Mary Gaitskill considers the state of literature. | UnHerd