Lit Hub Daily: June 6, 2022

• Buckle up for Lit Hub’s summer preview! First up: 35 novels that deserve a spot in your beach bag. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Jen DeGregorio investigates the literary lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo, friends and “minor poets” of two major American poetry movements. | Lit Hub Poetry

• “Whereas I might have wished for fellow intellectuals, I instead had a very little girl.” Heather O’Neill on writing and mothering. | Lit Hub Parenting

• After grief, a celebration of life: Madhushree Ghosh on hosting Diwali in her new home. | Lit Hub Memoir

• Levi Vonk reflects on pushing the borders of nonfiction to tell the story of hacker-on-the-run Axel Kirschner. | Lit Hub Craft

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• What Raquel Gutiérrez is reading now and next, from An Apartment on Uranus to Art for the Future. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand

• How an obsession with mementos grew into The Keepthings, a storytelling community on Instagram. | Lit Hub Memoir

• “The artist’s body speaks louder than any calligraphy.” Lars Horn on the intimate history between skin and ink. | Lit Hub Art

• “I’m a poet who’s never experienced true romantic love; I believe this is an American tragedy.” Morgan Parker reflects on a lifetime of singlehood. | ELLE

• Charles Dudley Warner considers the wardrobe required in a warm-weather novel. | Lapham’s Quarterly

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• “Our lives were strikingly similar. The greatest difference was I was allowed to execute my dreams. Floyd was murdered in the process of executing his.” Darryl Robertson on the new biography His Name Was George Floyd. | Esquire

• Laura Kolbe explores three new books that attempt to locate the origins of pain and its vocabulary. | NYRB

• “There’s a difference between basing a novel on someone else’s story and using someone else’s written account of that story.” Roxana Robinson on Wallace Stegner and authors who use other people’s writing. | The New Yorker

• Ryu Spaeth discusses Werner Herzog’s exploration of “man against nature, the thin line between dreams and reality, the tireless search for meaning in a meaningless world.” | The New Republic

• Loving Prehistoric Planet? Christoph Irmscher recommends new books on prehistoric life. | The Wall Street Journal

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Also on Lit Hub: Joseph Han on the militarized history behind a favorite food • How graphic novels convey a bygone New York • Read from Katie Gutierrez’s debut novel, More Than You’ll Ever Know