Lit Hub Daily: September 26, 2019

• “Many of the books seemed to be about the glory in nature we will soon be missing.” Thoughts from high schoolers on Lit Hub’s climate change library. | Lit Hub
• “Like James Bond but less exciting.” On coming to terms with family secrets, when your father is an actual spy. | Lit Hub
• Non-required reading: Noah Cho on the freedom of tossing The Scarlet Letter from a high school curriculum. | Lit Hub
• “The great movements of history have always begun in those small parentheses that we call ‘in the meantime.’” John Berger’s brief musings on time. | Lit Hub
• Oh, you love books? Name five of their albums. (Or just read these six pop-music heavy novels.) | Lit Hub
• How a saint gets made: Sonja Livingston on the complicated history of canonization. | Lit Hub
• Meet the publishers of Blaft, South India’s renegade pulp fiction press. | CrimeReads
• Judith Butler on Bari Weiss, Rumaan Alam on Ben Lerner, Hanif Abdurraqib on Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• “Wurtzel was oversharing before oversharing even became an everyday term we use, writing in a way that made people recoil with discomfort.” On the legacy of Prozac Nation, 25 years later. | Longreads
• Seven writers were among the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants, including Ocean Vuong, Valeria Luiselli, and Emily Wilson. | The Hub
• As rare first editions of Dashiell Hammett books prepare to go to auction, including The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest, his biographer Richard Layman pays tribute. | Christie’s
• “Spoiler alert: in the end, they all die. Everybody dies.” Is Death on the Beach the most depressing book in the English language? | The Baffler
• Is the real problem with The Goldfinch movie… The Goldfinch book? | Vox
• ProPublica’s investigative reporters recommend the books that made them better journalists. | ProPublica
• The author of an upcoming book about Jimmy Hoffa (and stepson of a suspect in the disappearance) says both he and the FBI know who really killed Hoffa… but you’ll have to find his book to find out! (Just kidding—he’s keeping it a secret.) | New York Daily News

Also on Lit Hub: On Gandhi and nonviolence as a spiritual virtue • How the word “ghetto” traveled from Europe to America • Read an excerpt from Kim Scott’s new novel Taboo.