Lit Hub Daily: September 5, 2017

• Your ultimate preview of previews: Here are the most recommended books of fall 2017. | Literary Hub
• Salman Rushdie on falling for Alice in Wonderland and giving up on Middlemarch. | Literary Hub
• 90 writers on their favorite lines of John Ashbery’s poetry. RIP. | Literary Hub
• Accidental lessons: Chelsea Martin on the only things she learned about in art school—class and bullshit. | Literary Hub
• “It is possible that it will be condescended to by, or make uneasy, the neo-academicians and the ‘official’ avant-garde critics.” On the 60th anniversary of On the Road’s publication, read a 1957 review of Kerouac’s iconic novel. | Book Marks
• “He was a deeply personal poet, the greatest poet of memory.” Dan Chiasson remembers John Ashbery, who died Sunday at 90. | The New Yorker
• On a recent crop of family sagas, books which are “haunted by original sin and nourished by dreams of upward mobility.” | The New York Times
• When Harry Met Barry: Roxane Gay pitches all-male movie remakes. | McSweeney’s
• “I spend all day being other people.” An interview with Nathan Englander. | NPR
• A new book of largely unpublished EH Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh sketches reveals how the iconic bear found his form. | The Guardian
• “For him, writing had come to serve the same purpose as the work of a blues singer.” On James Baldwin’s musicality. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• The story behind IKEA’s Billy Bookcase, now so ubiquitous that “Bloomberg News uses them to compare purchasing power around the world.” | Signature

Also on Lit Hub: Read a new poem by Danez Smith, “Dear White America.” · Sharon Bolton is a mash-up of Charlotte Bronte and Stephen King · Read from Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Golden House.