Lit Hub Daily: June 28, 2023

TODAY: In 1867, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate Luigi Pirandello is born.     

• How Queen Elizabeth I honored her mother, Anne Boleyn: “More than anyone else [Boleyn] was leaving behind, it was her daughter whom she wished to think well of her—and, perhaps, to rehabilitate her reputation.” | Lit Hub

• Get a load of the 12 Best Book Covers of June. | Lit Hub Design

• “I felt like we were in a pas de deux between worlds.” Amy Paturel on getting to know her husband’s late wife through the words she left behind. | Lit Hub

• Christina Lynch considers the hazards (and rewards) of teaching and writing at the same time. | Lit Hub Teaching

• “I was raised with drag, by drag. We all were.” Alexander Chee on the profound impact of drag on culture. | Harper’s Bazaar

• Considering the power of unapologetic abortions in literature. | The Nation

• “The doom spiral of cultural pessimism can best be combated by—as internet parlance has it—‘touching grass.’” Tara Isabella Burton offers advice for escaping “the worst possible timeline.” | The Atlantic

• A literary, filmic, and human argument for boxing. | Document Journal

• Writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo recounts building a fictional world for her movie She, a Chinese along the banks of the Thames and Yangtze. | The Dial

Also on Lit Hub: How scientists map the universe • On searching for truth by writing fiction • Read from Mat Osman’s latest novel, The Ghost Theatre

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