Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2023

• Bhakti Shringarpure recommends eight immersive novels for understanding the vastness of Sudan. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• “Who am I going to laugh with now?” Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and her father. | Lit Hub Memoir

• What Daniel Wallace learned about writing from his father’s extended stays on the toilet. | Lit Hub Craft & Advice

• “I love a good plot twist or surprise reveal as much as anyone. But there are some subjects that deserve to be treated more authentically when it comes to storytelling.” Why suicide isn’t a plot point. | Lit Hub

• Javier Marías’s Tomás Nevinson, Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, and Rachel Louise Snyder’s Women We Buried, Women We Burned all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks

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• The most anticipated crime fiction of the summer. | CrimeReads

• “Bad prose, to me, is bad thinking.” Brandon Taylor’s By the Book. | The New York Times

• 2023 is a big year for new short story collections from Asian and Asian diaspora writers. | Book Riot

• UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likes sexy horse books and there’s nothing wrong with that. | The Hub

• Heather O’Neill kicked off a serial novel about the Métro. | Montreal Gazette

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• Today’s literary mystery: Who was behind the classic 1976 cover for Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time? | Tor

• On the historical claim that there were actually two American Constitutions, one pro-slavery, the other abolitionist. | NY Review of Books

Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of books about book people • New poetry by Rosanna Young Oh • Read from R.F. Kuang’s latest novel, Yellowface