TODAY: In 1902, the Romanian-language literary review Luceafărul begins publication in Budapest.
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What do Jane Austen, Michael Pollan, and Mean Girls have in common? They’re all part of the literary film and TV streaming in July. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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19 new paperbacks to stuff (nicely) in your tote bag. | The Hub
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Apocalypse (almost) now: Peter Zeihan has some thoughts about the end of the world as we know it. | Lit Hub Politics
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“I think any attempt to write the Great Anything is a bad idea.” Andy Kifer talks to William Brewer, who is NOT trying to write the great West Virginia novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Considering the role of campaign operatives, “some of the most important, yet poorly understood” roles in shaping American democracy. | Lit Hub Politics
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Chris Cander considers the perpetual relevance of “A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story by first-wave feminist Susan Glaspell. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“The name I go by reflects a past always threatening to render me invisible.” Ina Cariño on naming and claiming ancestral land. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Patrick Radden Keffe expands on the art of the “writearound.” | Lit Hub Craft
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Geraldine Brooks’ Horse, Andrew Holleran’s The Kingdom of Sand, and Ed Yong’s An Immense World all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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Jamie Barlett on Ruja Ignatova, the crypto mogul scam artist who vanished into thin air. | CrimeReads
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Som-Mai Nguyen on diasporic literature, publishing’s tokenism, and when writers “extrapolate from orthographic coincidence and sprinkle in non-English words to assert unearned authority.” | Astra Magazine
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Sally Rooney on the emotional power of Natalia Ginzburg’s novel, All Our Yesterdays: “It was as if her writing was a very important secret that I had been waiting all my life to discover.” | The Guardian
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“We must maintain our grip on the reality in which we know we belong: the reality of a free life.” Mark Muhannad Ayyash on the dual lifelines of nature and poetry in Palestine. | The Baffler
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Don Franzen talks to Congressman Ted Lieu about his bill HR 3054—the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Why does it take so long to publish a book? Lincoln Michel breaks down publishing timelines. | Counter Craft
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Sophie Wilson considers how “fashion’s bibliophiles turn to both classic and contemporary literature for inspiration.” | i-D
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Margaret Rhodes dives down the rabbit hole of fake prop books and where they come from. | New York Magazine
Also on Lit Hub: A conversation with graphic novelist Rumi Hara • “Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.” • Read from Zülfü Livaneli’s Newly Translated Novel, The Last Island (tr. Ayşe A. Şahin)