Lit Hub Daily: April 6, 2017

TODAY: In 1992, Isaac Asimov dies.

• Mark Lane on surviving the death of his son, one page at a time. | Literary Hub
• The first rule of robots in literature? Break all three of Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. | Literary Hub
• Opening Day and after: on those who didn’t quite make it in the Big Leagues. | Literary Hub
• From Cleopatra to Hillary Clinton, tearing down powerful women for millennia. | Literary Hub
• “There are as many experiences of womanhood as there are women, but every woman who hears these stories has had something similar happen to her.” Moira Donegan on Rebecca Solnit’s most recent book and feminist storytelling. | The New Yorker
• He was a monument, a world of his own: On the writing of John Berger. | n+1
• Heather Cass White on editing Marianne Moore’s poetry, which “will deprive anyone of their certainty about what a poem actually is.” | Work in Progress
• Adrienne Celt on sleep, guilt, and her “deep experiential greed.” | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• What one should prepare for when writing a memoir, according to autobiographers and researchers who study autobiographical memory. | New York Magazine
• Why we shouldn’t privilege literary production over literary consumption (and should actually read). | The Point
• Speaking with the founder of Waywords and Meansigns, a project organized to set James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music that will release its third album on May 4th. | Hyperallergic

Also on Lit Hub: Sound advice from Walt Whitman on the subject of manliness · The fight for civil rights goes on at Oxford, Mississippi’s Square Books · Read a new short story by Richard Bausch.

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