Lit Hub Daily: June 24, 2022

TODAY: In 1912, English author Mary Wesley, who famously published her first novel for adults at 70, is born.  

• HAPPY PRIDE: Billy-Ray Belcourt wants a whole literature of queer indigenous possibility • Zeyn Joukhadar on the fantastical futures that trans people of color deserve • 111 queer books recommended by librarians, booksellers, and authors • Queer readings on anger, joy, and resistance. | Lit Hub

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• “To find pleasure in unexpected places, that is one of the great ways that desire can educate us.” Andrew Sciallo talks to Garth Greenwell about sex, freedom, cruising, and consent. | Lit Hub In Conversation

• “A dance break never hurt anybody.” Zakiya Dalila Harris on the key to writing along to music (with lyrics!). | Lit Hub Craft

• INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: Naveen Kishore of Seagull Books discusses 40 years of publishing literature in translation. | Lit Hub

• How Sitting Bull, leader of the Lakotas, became a peacemaker. | Lit Hub History

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• June Gervais recounts the chance encounter with a tattoo artist that unlocked her debut novel. | Lit Hub

• Leila Mottley on bell hooks’ underrated memoir, first drafts, and writing the real Oakland. | PEN America

• “While writing, I repeatedly asked myself why tribal people are the ones asked to feel like outsiders in literature and on their own ancestral lands.” Chelsea T. Hicks reflects on stories about Native women. | Electric Lit

• Journey with Madeleine Watts from Marseille to Berlin: “It is a luxury, an adult luxury, traveling like this. With little bottles of wine and a lover to carry the heavy suitcase.” | Astra Magazine

• “That tension between living the moment and writing the moment, as a memoirist, never fades.” Matt Ortile on writing and grieving. | Catapult

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• Elvia Wilk considers plant consciousness. | The Paris Review

• “She was in agony, like many of my patients: clear in her decision, certain of it, and still devastated by it.” Christine Henneberg on the necessity of describing the true, complex experience of abortion. | The Point

• “It’s possible that I will stake myself to a standard so severe that it precludes completion.” Noah Baldino on revision as futurity. | Poetry Magazine

Also on Lit Hub: Nicole Pasulka recommends narratives of community, history, and identity • What they’re reading at Brazos Bookstore • Read from David Duchovny’s new novella, The Reservoir

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