LitHub Daily: July 23, 2015

• Ioannis Pappos on the rootless life of the boutique hotel set. | Literary Hub
• After the end of the tour: Nell Zink, Gary Shteyngart, Junot Díaz, and others recall their most memorable book tour experiences. | The New York Times
• Nabokov’s linguistically rich life allowed him to create composite languages, in which jeans may be known as “blue cowboy trousers.” | Asymptote Journal
• Invention and understanding the unspoken in the (non-autofictive) novels of Atticus Lish. | Full Stop
• “There are years, days, hours, minutes, weeks, moments, and other measures of time spent in the production of ‘not writing.’” An excerpt from Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women. | Bookforum
• A history of the public library’s enviable inventions (a spinning wheel of books) and many dangers (dampness, flames, rats, idiots). | Flavorwire
• Only the stockiest, most bountifully bearded, and proudly khaki-adorned can call himself Top Papa in the annual Hemingway look-alike contest. | The Guardian
• On cicadas: annoying, raucous, and boasting a nutty flavor. | Public Books
• In the unlikely event that astrology proves false, Simone de Beauvoir has broken humanity into archetypes that can easily be applied to one’s dating life. | The Huffington Post

Also on Literary Hub: In praise of the unlinked story collection · A Q&A with Mary-Beth Hughes · Paul Grier’s flashy fiction, featuring back-from-the-dead mothers