Lit Hub Daily: August 5, 2019

• GUNS IN AMERICA: Ben Fountain reports from the middle of 11 acres of guns · Megan Stielstra on being a teacher in a land of guns · Igor Volsky on the origins of the NRA · Alexandra Minna Stern on the white supremacy grievance industry · R.J. Young on buying a gun in America · School teachers reflect on gun violence and student protest · George Hawley on the long history of white supremacy in America. | Lit Hub
• “By learning to read weird fictions on a literal level it may be possible to see how weird (the fiction of) reality already is.” Elvia Wilk on a feminist understanding of eerie fiction. | Lit Hub
• From Doris Lessing to Toni Morrison, Julie Phillips on what contraception meant to a century of women writers. | Lit Hub
• Cultivate loneliness, break routines… some reasons to become a literary digital nomad—even if you fail. | Lit Hub
• A reading list of literary San Diego, from Tommy Pico to (yes) Ron Burgundy. | Lit Hub
• “Someday, she will become your job.” Elissa Altman on being her mother’s sole caregiver. | Lit Hub
• Siobhan Adcock examines how crime fiction can be the best space to understand the veterans’ experience. | CrimeReads
• This week in Shhh…Secrets of the Librarians: Rita Meade on serving the community, marriage proposals, and Rue McClanahan’s resting librarian face. | Book Marks
• Hanif Abdurraqib presents an annotated playlist of rap videos, from The Lost Boyz’s “Renee” to Gucci Mane’s “Icy.” | The Believer
• “I have huge cheeks—my true beauty inspo is crying Selena Gomez.” Don’t pretend you don’t want to read about Jia Tolentino’s skincare routine okay? We’re past that now. | Into the Gloss
• What are the execs from Apple, Google, Spotify, and more reading this summer? Everything from Tara Westover to David Atkinson. | NBC News
• “Maybe my stories could help some­one feel seen. I thought they could push the conver­sation in a direction that mattered.” Read a new interview with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. | The Guardian
• The Library of Congress is looking for volunteer assistants to transcribe 16,000 documents from suffragists. You, yes you, can help right now. | Book Riot
• Mental essay-writing, trampoline calisthenics, and Cher: how Candace Bushnell spends her Sundays. | The New York Times
• “It’s the first time I keep hearing the idea not just that I shouldn’t exist, but that I don’t.” R.O. Kwon on coming out as bisexual on Twitter. | O

Also on Lit Hub: On the pitfalls and power of the religious essay • On Nell Blaine and the young abstract painters of downtown New York • Read from Mike Freedman’s debut novel King of the Mississippi.