Lit Hub Daily: July 6, 2023

TODAY: In 1859, Swedish poet, novelist, and Nobel Prize laureate Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam is born.        

• Here are the 166 titles we’ll be reading in the second half of the year. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• “I am almost always the main character in my stories of my parents’ music.” Keziah Weir reflects on finding her literary voice through her parents’ musical talent. | Lit Hub Music

• Arianna Reiche recommends her favorite works of metafiction, featuring Vladimir Nabokov, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

• Laura Kay on writing queer romance: “Part of the joy for me as a queer woman, when writing about characters falling for each other, is the shamelessness of it all.” | Lit Hub

• “The book itself is haunting in its dissection of the mechanisms that allow human beings to dehumanize others.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Five short story collections to have you reading like a writer. | Lit Hub

• “This is what made me. Watching/ their descendants drop it lower than their expectations. They could never/ sit in our situations which is why they can’t get up & break it down like we do/” A poem by Tayi Tibble. | The New Yorker

• Remembering the great modern poet H.D. | JSTOR Daily

• “Each time I return to Mexico I find myself marveling at how many elements of daily life there could, in some way, be described as Baroque: our sunsets, our cuisine, our pollution, our corruption.” Chloe Ardijis on Mexican Baroque. | The Paris Review

• Jack Hanson considers Mario Vargas Llosa’s rejection of the left. | The Nation

• Patricia Lockwood on the life and legacy of David Foster Wallace. | London Review of Books

• Are blockbuster sports books—think Moneyball or Playing for Keeps—a thing of the past? | Esquire

Also on Lit Hub: What Mai Nguyen is reading now and next • New poetry in July • Read from Natalia Ginzburg’s newly translated novel, The Road to the City (tr. Gini Alhadeff)

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