Lit Hub Daily: June 28, 2018

TODAY: In 1932, Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (left), meets publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies (right, with his brothers George and Jack) the inspiration for Peter Pan, at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop. 
  • Miranda Popkey wonders why we’re so perennially fascinated by that master of self-erasure, Véra Nabokov. | Lit Hub
  • “The human soup is a teeming broth, which must mean I have a high threshold for disgust, combined with a weakness for corporeal pleasure.” Maureen Stanton’s brief (and personal) history of public bathing. | Lit Hub
  • “Reading is absolutely vital. It’s simply naive to think that any good writing is sui generis.” Poet Ange Mlinko suggests you open a book. | Lit Hub
  • You’ve been mispronouncing Dr. Seuss your whole life. Howard Allen Frances O’Brien, James Horowitz, Chloe Ardelia Wofford, and other writers who went with a pen name. | Lit Hub
  • From Cold War Berlin to present-day South Texas, 20 crime novels set in disputed territories, divided cities, and liminal spaces of all kinds. | CrimeReads
  • Michael Cunningham on Rebecca Makkai, Ron Charles on Tim Winton, and more: 5 book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
  • “I feel like I didn’t even write this book. . . whatever that book is, it has nothing to do with me anymore, if it ever did.” Looking back at Girl, Interrupted, 25 years later. | The Paris Review
  • “The label can be used if they cry at a seeming whim, have suicidal ideation, are jealous—or, sometimes, when they do nothing more than stand up for themselves.” On Heart Berries and what we mean when we call women crazy. | The Walrus
  • Glancing askance at the mythos of male genius and the mute, compliant notion of womanhood on which it relies: On Blue Self-Portrait and the feminist muse. | Public Books
  • From Black Orpheus to JALADA, 5 literary magazines that have shaped contemporary African literature. | OkayAfrica
  • “This could be the kind of comeback story we might get accustomed to if we don’t hold to account the men accused of abuse or harassment during the #MeToo movement.” On Tao Lin’s return to the spotlight. | BuzzFeed
  • “There would be a Pulitzer Prize for blogging, if men did it more.” Lydia Kiesling profiles the Mormon mommy blogger formerly known as Nat the Fat Rat. | The Cut
  • Congratulations to A Public Space, Fence, and Words Without Borders, the winners of the inaugural Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes. | Whiting Foundation

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