Lit Hub Daily: October 2, 2019

• “So much injustice in a woman’s life can be traced back to a man claiming the power to control her narrative.” Lacy M. Johnson on Kavanaugh, Trump, and the lies men tell. | Lit Hub
• Running a bookstore aboard a 100-year-old Dutch barge never gets boring (though it sometimes gets wet). | Lit Hub
• Lauren Elkin on Sigrid Undset’s Jenny, a cautionary tale of a doomed flâneuse. | Lit Hub
• Why do we feel so compelled to make maps of fictional worlds? Lev Grossman on the history of cartography in sci fi, fantasy, and more. | Lit Hub
• “Not My President.” A poem by Staceyann Chin from her collection Crossfire. | Lit Hub
• Feeling lucky? Perhaps this brief history of gambling with dice will change your mind. | Lit Hub
• “Her books have built bridges between the safe and affluent heart of the Western world and the unsafe margins.” On the courage and complexity of Olga Tokarczuk. | Lit Hub
• “It was right she was called La Pasionara.” On Emma Tenayuca, one of the great unsung heroes of the American labor movement, and the San Antonio pecan strike of 1938. | Lit Hub
• To celebrate the release of her new novel, here’s a reader’s guide to becoming obsessed with Jeanette Winterson. | Book Marks
• A haunted Ivy League campus, a plucky interstellar janitor, and a group of intrepid space nuns all feature in October’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books. | Book Marks
• “Ordinary men, I had discovered, could be the most dangerous of all.” Rene Denfield on her narrow escape from the Green River Killer. | CrimeReads
• Cookbooks are selling. Why aren’t their authors making more money? | The New York Times
• “I meet the poet’s longing through my own.” On translating Giorgio de Chirico. | The Paris Review
• Igiaba Scego on the abuse of black women under Italian colonialism and the transnational feminist movement Not One Less. | World Literature Today
• In which Haruki Murakami may or may not reveal the seed of his cat obsession, and also writes beautifully about his father. | The New Yorker
• Elaine Feinstein, a translator and biographer of great Russian authors and an influential poet in Britain, has died at 88. | The Guardian
• Apocalyptic race wars, nationalist coups d’etat, and more: On the terrifying world of far-right literature. | The New Republic
• “I had this sort of feverish, drugged-up night of my illness watching that episode of The Smurfs about mortality.” Anne Boyer on novels, Balzac, and “noting the bee.” | The Believer

Also on Lit Hub: The astrology book club: all the spooky books to read this month, based on your sign • Ready your TBR piles: here are the new releases we’re looking forward to this month • Read an excerpt from Edward J. Delaney’s new collection The Big Impossible.