Lit Hub Daily: September 7, 2022

TODAY: In 1887, English poet and critic Edith Sitwell is born.

• 22 novels you need to read this fall, according to us. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

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• “Today, the island’s primary export is middle- and lower-income families who can no longer afford to live here.” Mary Bergman on the reality of Nantucket versus Elin Hilderbrand’s summer novels. | Lit Hub Travel

• Eileen Myles considers the “pictorial, geometric, pagan” photos of Justin Kimball. | Lit Hub Photography

• Working on fumes: How a nuclear site in Washington State poisoned its own employees—and how those workers are fighting for justice. | Lit Hub Health

• “How does one assert oneself as a person, a woman, without a speaking voice, without sound waves commandeering attention?” Cai Emmons on returning to an early love of quiet after losing her voice to ALS. | Lit Hub Memoir

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• Ann Beattie in praise of the great chef James Haller, whose lessons in cooking apply just as seamlessly to life. | Lit Hub Food

• Was Benghazi a single factor or a game-changer in the 2016 presidential election? Ethan Corin investigates. | Lit Hub Politics

• “Evil as entertainment remains deeply problematic.” Lisa Nikolidakis on true crime and trauma. | CrimeReads

• Masiyaleti Mbewe on the state of millennial fiction from African writers. | LARB

• Which LGBTQ books would make great film adaptations? Hazel Khatter gives a rundown of some favorites. | Collider

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• Neil McRobert ranked all 75 Stephen King books. | Esquire

• Legendary literary agent Sterling Lord—whose clients included Ken Kesey, Erica Jong, and Doris Kearns Goodwin—has died at 102. | The New York Times

• Considering the perils of seeking life advice from philosophers. | The Point

• “You can be a gun person involuntarily. At least that’s what I find myself wanting to tell people.” Andrew Howard on active-shooter training and gun violence in America. | Guernica

Also on Lit Hub: When humans and killer whales hunt together • Alice Wong on prophetic poetry and processing pain • Read from A. M. Homes’s latest novel, The Unfolding

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