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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
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“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
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After grief, a celebration of life: Madhushree Ghosh on hosting Diwali in her new home. | Lit Hub Memoir
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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
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How an obsession with mementos grew into The Keepthings, a storytelling community on Instagram. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“The artist’s body speaks louder than any calligraphy.” Lars Horn on the intimate history between skin and ink. | Lit Hub Art
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“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
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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
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Laura Kolbe explores three new books that attempt to locate the origins of pain and its vocabulary. | NYRB
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“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
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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
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Loving Prehistoric Planet? Christoph Irmscher recommends new books on prehistoric life. | The Wall Street Journal
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
