Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2019

• “Let us listen to an old farty woman stream her consciousness to us…” and 35 more one-star reviews of Mrs. Dalloway from the intrepid literary dissenters of Amazon. | Lit Hub
• “I am most grateful to that city, with which I have many old grudges, and many even older loves…” Gabriel García Márquez on life in 1950s Paris. | Lit Hub
• When to write it, when to walk away: Jessica Francis Kane on the problem of too much metaphor. | Lit Hub
• “I am done waiting. My father is long dead.” Eve Ensler imagines an apology from her abusive father. | Lit Hub
• “The art of the film noir monologue is the art of the excuse.” Molly Odintz rounds up the 20 best speeches in crime cinema. | CrimeReads
• Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny author Max Porter recommends five books about being a tree. | Book Marks
• The UK halted the export of the copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover that a judge used during the landmark 1960 obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The British government hopes that a buyer in the UK, not overseas, will purchase the book. | Star Tribune
• “This one woman came in, dressed kind of cool, and she was like, ‘Okay, my therapist told me I have to read something that makes me look dumb when I pull it out.’ Obviously she was high-strung.” NYC booksellers on Sally Rooney’s novels and the people who buy them. | Interview
• A California judge dismissed accusations of racketeering and fraud levied against the coffee company Port of Mokha and its founder, Mokhtar Alkhanshali, the subject of Dave Eggers’s 2018 book Monk of Mokha. | Eater San Francisco
• “Many of the celebrated nonfiction writers of years past sort of, well, made a lot of shit up.” On David Foster Wallance and the trouble with revisiting venerated journalists. | The Outline
• According to a new biography, Susan Sontag probably wrote the book that launched her ex-husband’s career. | The Guardian
• Listen, it’s possible we’ve all been tricked and the real end of Game of Thrones is waiting in a drawer somewhere. | Collider
• “I had two days to decide what to tell my doctor about whether I wanted to carry a child.” Nicole Dennis-Benn on pregnancy, and motherhood. | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: On The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan, Pico Iyer talks about decolonizing travel writing and more • Hugh Ryan discusses his path to writing a book on Literary Disco • On So Many Damn Books, Erin Somers talks rich kids, melancholy, slapstick, and more • “A private moment in a public object”: Julia Carpenter on book dedications • Uncovering the secret history of a WWII-era Brooklyn spy • Read an excerpt from Leah Hager Cohen’s new novel, Strangers and Cousins.