Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2022

• Part three of Lit Hub’s summer preview: 29 works of nonfiction to expand your horizons (from wherever you are). | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• Before Twitter, we argued about fiction in person: James Patterson recalls his first literary party, where James Baldwin and Norman Mailer got “ready to rumble.” | Lit Hub Memoir

• “At a certain point—as a writer or a golfer—you have to start playing by feel, playing with confidence.” Adam White on breaking (some of) the rules he gives his writing students.  | Lit Hub Craft

• Turns out, summer vacations are a 19th-century invention of the rich. At least we got something out of them? | Lit Hub History

• Philip Schultz on the creative juice behind unpleasant emotions. | Lit Hub Craft

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• An affair to remember: When Rob Reiner’s alter ego (Harry) met Nora Ephron’s alter ego (Sally). | Lit Hub Film & TV

• “People who have not danced before in twenty years have been dancing.” How jazz fueled a nationwide dance craze—and made its way to Paris. | Lit Hub Music

• Cara Black and Tara Moss on the art of writing fashion. | CrimeReads

• Check out the Words Without Borders website re-launch, which promises daily content, new installments of their Indigenous Writing Project, and more virtual events. | Words Without Borders

• James Patterson talks wealth, the Clintons, and reclaiming the American flag. | The New Yorker

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• “Musil’s prose is a pile of ballet slipper–colored tulle. It is over-ripe fruit, sugar congealing at its center.” Sophie Atkinson on reading The Man Without Qualities and embracing uncertainty. | Astra

• Lukas Moe looks at “quit lit” and its context in an unsustainable academic system. | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Rozina Ali talks to Solmaz Sharif about exploring discomfort, reinvention, and challenging readers. | Lux

• Tertulia is the latest in a parade of apps hoping to “reproduce online the serendipity of walking into a bookstore and discovering new books and authors.” | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: Ryan Coleman considers Claire Denis’ adaptation of The Stars at Noon • Anna Dorn in praise of novels that embrace the immediate • Read a story from Kathryn Harlan’s debut collection, Fruiting Bodies