Lit Hub Daily: May 25, 2023

• Here are 25 nonfiction books to read this summer (because novels are actually all made up). | Lit Hub

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• Brooke Koeper traces the rise of journalism’s star female reporters: “Men on the rise never seemed to require the years of experience demanded of women with like ambition.” | Lit Hub History

• “The Sardes are almost all born poets.” Jeff Biggers on the millennia-old tradition of poetry in Sardinia. | Lit Hub Poetry

• Carlos Fonseca considers the novel as a haven for eccentrics. | Lit Hub

• Poet Emily Simon on playing language games, inheriting a tradition of complaining, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation

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• “Why did a man who is probably our leading national pipsqueak decide that promoting manliness was his ticket to political power?” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Are these the 100 greatest children’s books of all time? | BBC

• “Principals will lose control over selecting reading programs at their schools, and their union has criticized the speed of change.” Updating the way children learn to read is easier said than done. | New York Times

• A US history book has been returned to a library in California… almost 100 years overdue. | The Guardian

• Rapid-fire book recs from Brandon Taylor. | ELLE

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• A Florida school (of course) is now trying to “restrict” Amanda Gorman’s poetry. | The Hub

• Carmen Maria Machado on why Hollywood can’t get enough of cannibalism stories. | Bon Appetit 

Also on Lit Hub: Matthew Krogh on the new adaptation of White House Plumbers • A reading list of quiet apocalypse books • Read from Emma Törzs’s debut novel Ink Blood Sister Scribe