Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2019

• Lili Anolik and Geoff Dyer discuss reverence vs. love, Harrison Ford’s sexual stamina, and writing about movies. | Lit Hub
• In defense of soap operas: Nicholas Mancusi on the plot and inventiveness that are the stock and trade of his family business. | Lit Hub
• On one hand, there is no “perfect summer book.” On the other hand, here are twenty. | Lit Hub
• “Natural winegrowers’ experimentation is an act of liberty that provides a sense of freedom to others.” How the radically new pays homage to tradition in the natural wine movement. | Lit Hub
• “The worst stories are the self-serving ones.” Jayson Greene on the risks of writing about grief. | Lit Hub
• Did Sherlock Holmes have more in common with the American hardboiled noir than with the English puzzle mystery? Alexis Hall reconsiders a legendary sleuth’s literary heritage. | CrimeReads
• This week in Shhh…Secrets of the Librarians: The New York Public Library’s Lynn Lobash talks forgotten books, The Library Lion, and the 88 neighborhood libraries of NYC. | Book Marks
• “Read a little bit at a time and think about it and then move on, but don’t beat yourself up if you don’t understand it.” Like all politicians in 2019, Jeremy Corbyn has an opinion on Ulysses. | The Guardian
• A collection of Leonard Cohen’s love letters to Marianne Ihlen—yes, that Marianne—have sold at auction for a cool $876,000. | BBC News
• Peek inside Virginia Woolf’s original, handwritten manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway. | The New York Times
• With their poetry series Blank Space, the Sudanese duo Mathani Mohammad and Mohammad Hakam hope to encourage Dubai’s next generation of poets. | Gulf News
• A profile of AM Homes looks at her mastery of the short story — and the character she hasn’t stopped writing about since 1989. | Vanity Fair
• “I obviously love to eat, but sometimes I think, maybe, today I will be cured of the need to eat.” Read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Grub Street Diet (in which she continues to be afflicted with the need to eat). | Grub Street
• “To be a good ancestor is to think beyond two generations, to three, to four, to five and to ten. And we are very bad at that” Watch a conversation between Barry Lopez and Robert Macfarlane. | YouTube

Also on Lit Hub: How Lakshmi Shankar became the voice behind Gandhi • Discovering America’s heavenly kingdom of crude oil • Read from Lauren Acampora’s debut novel The Paper Wasp.