LitHub Daily: June 28, 2016

TODAY: In 1503, Giovanni della Casa, very polite Florentine poet (and writer on etiquette and society), is born. 

• Robert Stone on how Michael Herr transcended New Journalism, and told the story of Vietnam unlike anyone else. | Literary Hub
• The wife (a writer) interviews the husband (also a writer): Carrie Brown talks with John Gregory Brown about his new novel. | Literary Hub
• John Berger tells a fish story (and more). | Literary Hub
• What kind of writer are you: cook or baker? | Literary Hub
• Bethanne Patrick recommends nine great thrillers written by women. | Literary Hub
• “By casting my book as personal rather than professional—by marketing me as a woman on a journey of self-discovery, rather than a reporter on a groundbreaking assignment—I was effectively being stripped of my expertise on the subject I knew best.” Suki Kim on the miscategorization of her work of investigative journalism as memoir. | New Republic
• Exploring the “girl-to-girl current that leads teens to shirk off the prescribed narrative of girlhood in favor of something more thrilling:” On Girls on Fire and The Girls. | The Hairpin
• English writer Joanna Walsh gathers her colleagues’ thoughts on Brexit, not many of them good. | 3:AM Magazine
• From Clan Corgi Butts to Trash Clan: Tony Tulathimutte on Clash of Clans, not quite addictive smartphone strategy game and “itch that feels good to scratch.” | Real Life
• Annie DeWitt on significance of voice, creating a family of language, and putting the burden on her reader. | Tin House
• On the Oulipian institution and Anne Garréta’s “gender-indeterminate love story,” Sphinx. | 3 Quarks Daily
• “Bury it out in the weeds, where Mrs. Lewis won’t have to see it.” A short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle. | The New Yorker
• Remembering The Toast, “funny and literary feminist website, gleeful kneecapper of high culture, omphalos of cheerful misandry,” before its closure on July 1. | NPR
• “But there is a profound difference between what a writer does alone in her room… and the human need to quietly share in the most intimate possible way, to confess, to stutter out thoughts and feelings, to be heard and understood.” Dani Shapiro on the loneliness of memoir writing. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Why you should aim for 100 rejections a year · Books making news this week: Shakespeare, novellas, and national parks · Lessons from Uncle: From Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer

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