Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2023

• “There is no way to find a modern copy of that.” Good luck tracking down Umberto Eco’s favorite books! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Mattie Kahn tells the story of Mabel Ping‑Hua Lee, the revolutionary Chinese suffragette who challenged America’s politics. | Lit Hub Politics

• “How could a single family be extracted for nearly a century, for projects ranging from Jim Crow to psychiatry’s culture wars?” Audrey Clare Farley reflects on rewriting the story of the Genain quadruplets. | Lit Hub History

• Take a peek inside a watchmaker’s (miraculous) world. | Lit Hub Design

• Matt Mitchell talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about love poems, lineage, intersex identity, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• “This is a strange and beautiful book, and when you try to catch it in your hands, it dissolves.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Lorrie Moore recommends some of her favorite books (and covers). | Elle

• “She described everything she saw with the curiosity and precision of a naturalist’s eye.” On Virginia Woolf’s forgotten diary. | The Paris Review

• A look inside Britain’s queer bookshop boom. | Dazed

• “Ultimately as a god-dictator-novelist you are limited to your own brain.” An interview with Katherine Faw. | Byline

• Go for a stroll in some of these literary woods. | Orion

Also on Lit Hub: Learning how to live from Ralph Waldo Emerson • On language, faith, and family at the US/Mexico border • Read from K Patrick’s debut novel, Mrs. S