[New post] Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2022

Lit Hub Daily posted: " "Maybe / it's up to us, the crawling vines, to set roots for our homeland." New poetry by Ostap Slyvynsky, translated from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk. | Lit Hub Ukraine Beyond Watermelon Sugar: Matt Mitchell explores t" Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2022 Lit Hub Daily Jun 30 TODAY: In 1936, Algerian novelist, translator, and filmmaker Assia Djebar is born. "Maybe / it's up to us, the crawling vines, to set roots for our homeland." New poetry by Ostap Slyvynsky, translated from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk. | Lit Hub Ukraine Beyond Watermelon Sugar: Matt Mitchell explores the Richard Brautigan universe of bubblegum minimalism that inspired Harry Styles. | Lit Hub Music In praise of objets d'art: the 10 best book covers of June. | Lit Hub "War on the air is war on life." Daisy Hildyard examines the impact of ecological violence on the nonhuman world. | Lit Hub Climate Change Paddy Crew recommends books narrated by outsiders. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Alexandra Lapierre reflects on immersing herself in the life of one of history's most famous librarians: Belle de Costa Greene. | Lit Hub History "After more than two decades of writing weather stories, I was running out of ledes." David Michael Ettlin on his reporter days in Baltimore. | Lit Hub Memoir Ryan Ruby on a Moby-Dick sequel, Marie-Helene Bertino on a tale of vanishing mothers, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks No one will miss them: Dianne Freeman rounds up Agatha Christie's most unlikable victims. | CrimeReads Kate Brook makes the case for embracing imperfection in our conversations about the climate crisis. | Lit Hub Climate Change Armchair travel to Lisbon with this recommended reading list from Portuguese novelist Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. | The New York Times "Passion lives inside your car as your hands grip the wheel and the freeway beckons." André Naffis-Sahely talks with Nathalie Handal about the hidden histories and iconic writers of Los Angeles. | Words Without Borders Emma Stiefel considers the legacy and lessons of feminist bookstores. | San Francisco Chronicle "I was struck, as I often am, by the loneliness of so many of our American writers—Melville, Dickinson, Thoreau—each so isolated in their strange digs." Christopher Benfey visits Melville's childhood home. | NYRB Avatars on TikTok, Bitmoji, and… the 30-year-old comic book that guides Silicon Valley's customizable art. | Financial Times Ana Quiring on a subgenre of Regency-age romance novels that believe "queer love may contribute to the erosion of wealth and the strict nuclear family inheritance structures that protect it." | The Millions Also on Lit Hub: Why solidarity is not a finite resource • A reading list for the grieving • Read a story from Chelsea T. Hicks' debut collection, A Calm & Normal Heart Comment Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Literary Hub. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-june-30-2022/ Powered by Jetpack