THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
“It felt as if Eileen had found a box of pencils they wrote with in the 1970s and asked if I would like to take a look at them.” CAConrad on Eileen Myles’ “Bird Watching.” | Lit Hub Criticism
From slugs to watermelons, these 10 new children’s books are a perfect way to kick off summer. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Alexandra Oliva takes doing research for her novel to a whole new altitude. | Lit Hub Craft
Craig Morgan Teicher recommends poetry collections coming in June by Carl Dennis, Fanny Howe, Amanda Nadelberg, and others. | Lit Hub Poetry
This week in literary history, Carson McCullers’ debut novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, is published. | Lit Hub History
This month’s best sci-fi and fantasy books feature unicorn diversions, robot valets, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Author Julia Cooke and artist Paul Elie discuss group portraiture, the focus of a book, and writing secret histories. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Sarah Wang on growing up in an immigrant household and writing a book her mother will never read. | Lit Hub Craft
“Fanny has just told me that her most cherished lover, Lucia, told her a cat drowned yesterday in the Canal Saint-Martin.” Read from Deborah Levy’s new novel, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein. | Lit Hub Fiction
Why are fish so gay? Four queer writers discuss using aquatic life as an organizing principle in their work. | Orion
Maris Kreizman considers the rise of “ragebait lit.” | Harper’s Bazaar
Kate Knibbs asks Steve Rosenbaum, whose book about how AI warps perception was produced with assistance from AI, to explain himself. | Wired
Wikipedia editors are considering a strike. | The Verge
“Given New York’s disdain for Chinese opera in Chinatown, why did elite audiences clamor to see it uptown?” H.M.A. Leow looks at the reception of Chinese opera in New York. | JSTOR Daily
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