Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2018

• 17 great writers on their favorite short story collections: Lauren Groff, George Saunders, Samanta Schweblin, Helon Habila and more. | Lit Hub
• Paul Beatty talks to Oscar Villalon about LA lit, The Sellout, and life after winning the Man Booker Prize. | Lit Hub
• How train-hopping gave me my life back: poet Kai Carlson-Wee on the origins of his collection, RAIL. | Lit Hub
• The last days of Robert F. Kennedy: Timothy Denevi on the radical compassion of an American icon. | Lit Hub
• Kristen Lepionka on the evolution of queerness in crime fiction, from tropes and stereotypes to complex characterizations. | CrimeReads
• BookPeople’s Eugenia Vela recommends 10 contemporary classics of children’s literature by authors and illustrators of color. | Book Marks
• “The truth is that truth has always been a contested idea.” Salman Rushdie on the “multidimensional, fractured and fragmented” nature of reality. | The New Yorker
• The New York Times recommends the best thrillers, cookbooks, romance novels, and more to read this summer. | The New York Times
• “People have been saying forever, we live in a glut of images. I thought to myself, how would you tell that story?” A profile of Lynne Tillman. | SSENSE
• Akil Kumarasamy and Sara Nović discuss violence, justice, and the ways we pass down our trauma. | Work in Progress
• “Are you kidnapping me?” A short story by Laura van den Berg. | Catapult
• “I wanted to watch the patriarchy go up in flames, but I wasn’t excited about what was being pitched to replace it.” Natasha Stagg on nightlife and dating after #MeToo. | n+1
• Copper Canyon Press is fundraising the publication of Ursuala K. Le Guin’s 13th and final collection of poetry. | Bustle

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