Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2021
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1964, the US Supreme Court overturns a lower court ruling that found Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to be obscene.
- Lit Hub’s favorite summer (re-)reads. | Lit Hub
- “I wanted to center these women, to make them real people who might have lived during the Greek Bronze Age.” Claire Heywood on rewriting mythology from the woman’s perspective. | Lit Hub
- “Art may be a process, but I don’t think we get much out of trying to life-hack our way to creating literature.” Real talk from Brandon Taylor. | Lit Hub
- Keenan Norris on Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and how Black writers capture the comedy and dark absurdity of life in America. | Lit Hub
- Mustafa Akyol on the consequences of speaking out against religious illiberalism in Malaysia. | Lit Hub
- What a 13th-century Medieval text can teach us about queerness and gender. | Lit Hub
- 20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where). | The Hub
- Terrance Hayes on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz Poet. | Boston Review
- “Berry’s claim is about the unity of human lives and hence of our common life. It is as much practical as moral.” Brad East examines Wendell Berry’s “conservative radicalism.” | The Point
- Aja Monet considers the power of showing up and speaking your truth. | The Creative Independent
- “My love of history, what we inherit, how it informs today, is still very much in my work.” Angie Cruz discusses the inspiration behind her 2019 novel, the history of colonialism, and representation in publishing. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- The audiobook industry is grappling with questions about representation and casting. | Slate
- Here’s how Ibram X. Kendi chooses justice-oriented books for kids. | NPR
- “A neat library is a dead one, and I’ll accept a little chaos as proof of my living.” In defense of a messy book collection. | Washington Post
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