Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2020

• “You rise in pieces, loved to death, / at last unshackled. / Time will hold your breath.” Read “Salutations in Search Of,” a new poem by Patricia Smith. | Lit Hub
• “Literature can do one thing no other art form can do: It can let you experience what it is like to be inside the consciousness of another human being.” Madeleine Watts on Helen Garner and the quagmire of the fictionalized self. | Lit Hub
• Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton discuss their anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction, and the story form of Native basketry. | Lit Hub
• You’ll be forgiven for missing these fives great books from June—but perhaps you should consider them now? | Lit Hub
• “In Canada, a poet, to make his way as a poet, has to be a real tough bastard.” On a standoff between the poets and the police in a Toronto park. | Lit Hub
• On the American election to avoid WWIII: Inside the beginning of Harry Truman’s presidential campaign. | Lit Hub History
• “For every modern advantage there existed an acceptable number of dead people to pay for it.” Oliver Broudy on the misleading neoliberal promise of the “risk expert.” | Lit Hub
• Lorrie Moore on Sally Rooney’s Millennials, Geoff Dyer on falling in love with Lonesome Dove, Asterix in America, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• Glen Erik Hamilton on the lousiest dads in crime fiction. | CrimeReads
• “Everything is up for change, and will change.” On the publishing industry’s rare moment of transformation. | The New York Times
• The archive of the first gay magazine in the U.S. is “a record of endurance, legal and emotional labor, new and inherited trauma, tenderness, and joy.” | JSTOR Daily
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on the long, diverse history of Mexican horror comic books. | Tor.com
  Donald Trump, Jr. is self-publishing his next book. What does that mean for conservative imprints? | The New Republic
• The story of Virago, the feminist press that unsettled patriarchal norms in the publishing industry during the 1970s and championed authors like Maya Angelou, Angela Carter, and Adrienne Rich. | New Statesman
• “I recently discovered that—unlike in my twenties—at 46 years old I am able to spend innumerable hours watching The X-Files unassisted by marijuana.” Brad Phillips doesn’t want to believe. | Affidavit
• The British Library has obtained the illustrations of the gothic fantasy author and artist Mervyn Peake. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Asako Serizawa on war and the inheritance of trauma • The birth of quarantine zines • Read an excerpt from Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel Want.