Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2022

• “Maybe / it’s up to us, the crawling vines, to set roots for our homeland.” New poetry by Ostap Slyvynsky, translated from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk. | Lit Hub Ukraine

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• Beyond Watermelon Sugar: Matt Mitchell explores the Richard Brautigan universe of bubblegum minimalism that inspired Harry Styles. | Lit Hub Music

• In praise of objets d’art: the 10 best book covers of June. | Lit Hub

• “War on the air is war on life.” Daisy Hildyard examines the impact of ecological violence on the nonhuman world. | Lit Hub Climate Change

• Paddy Crew recommends books narrated by outsiders. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Alexandra Lapierre reflects on immersing herself in the life of one of history’s most famous librarians: Belle de Costa Greene. | Lit Hub History

• “After more than two decades of writing weather stories, I was running out of ledes.” David Michael Ettlin on his reporter days in Baltimore. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Ryan Ruby on a Moby-Dick sequel, Marie-Helene Bertino on a tale of vanishing mothers, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• No one will miss them: Dianne Freeman rounds up Agatha Christie’s most unlikable victims. | CrimeReads

• Kate Brook makes the case for embracing imperfection in our conversations about the climate crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change

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• Armchair travel to Lisbon with this recommended reading list from Portuguese novelist Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. | The New York Times

• “Passion lives inside your car as your hands grip the wheel and the freeway beckons.” André Naffis-Sahely talks with Nathalie Handal about the hidden histories and iconic writers of Los Angeles. | Words Without Borders

• Emma Stiefel considers the legacy and lessons of feminist bookstores. | San Francisco Chronicle

• “I was struck, as I often am, by the loneliness of so many of our American writers—Melville, Dickinson, Thoreau—each so isolated in their strange digs.” Christopher Benfey visits Melville’s childhood home. | NYRB

• Avatars on TikTok, Bitmoji, and… the 30-year-old comic book that guides Silicon Valley’s customizable art. | Financial Times

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• Ana Quiring on a subgenre of Regency-age romance novels that believe “queer love may contribute to the erosion of wealth and the strict nuclear family inheritance structures that protect it.” | The Millions

Also on Lit Hub: Why solidarity is not a finite resource • A reading list for the grieving • Read a story from Chelsea T. Hicks’ debut collection, A Calm & Normal Heart