Lit Hub Daily: How Hayley Mills Almost Played Lolita in the Kubrick Adaptation

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“God forgive me if this letter is ever opened by mistake.” An, ahem, steamy letter from Henry Miller to Anais Nin. | Lit Hub

Sally Rooney’s new novel—which is out today, if you didn’t know—has already been reviewed over 30 times. | Book Marks

“She was labeled the nymphet, I was labeled Pollyanna.” Hayley Mills on missing out on the part of Lolita to protect her Disney image. | Lit Hub Film

How 1987’s Miss Michigan, a hospice nurse, helped change the course of the Miss America pageant. | Lit Hub History

Hilma Wolitzer talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing through grief, how to end a story, and losing her husband to COVID-19. | Lit Hub

The late artist Winfred Rembert captures a peaceful civil rights demonstration in the Jim Crow South that ended in mayhem. | Lit Hub History

My first Tamagotchi: Qian Julie Wang recalls the summer of 1998, and how her family’s purchases spoke to the American Dream. | Lit Hub Memoir

A Wrinkle in Time, Beloved, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and more rapid-fire book recs from Lauren Fox. | Book Marks

Can Salman Rushdie’s forthcoming, Substack-published novella revive serialized fiction? | The New Republic

Susanna Clarke considers the books that shaped her personal and creative identity. | The Guardian

Listen to this podcast interview with Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. | Bookworm

Claudia Rankine explores Beyoncé’s radical reimagining of what it means to be a pop icon. | Harper’s Bazaar 

Revisiting the journals of Spalding Gray. | Into

What inspired Lauren Groff to set her new novel in a 12th-century convent? “To live in a world without men, just for a little while.” | The Star Tribune

Dawn Turner revisits her old Chicago neighborhood, a place “where all that is good and bad is simultaneously at your fingertips” that is featured in her memoir. | Chicago Tribune

Laura Sackton suggests bookish rituals for every day. | Book Riot

In the real land of fire and ice, in a village of only four hundred inhabitants, life and love become bigger. Unexpected, warm, and humorous, Stefánsson explores the dreams and desires of everyday people, and reveals the magic of life in all its ugliness and beauty. Start reading now.

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth talks about the alchemy in

graphic poetry, on First Draft. 

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Jane Pek performs an excerpt of her short story, on Storybound. 

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On Big Table, Brigette Benkeman discusses Dora Maar, surrealist photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman.”

There are a million killer stories. But America’s #1 cop, Eve Dallas, makes sure no one gets forgotten. In the electrifying new audiobook in the bestselling series, Eve must sift through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The audiobook is read by Susan Ericksen. Start listening now!

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