Lit Hub Daily: February 27, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1956, Ted Hughes and poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England.
- Nick Ripatrazone on the importance (and rarity) of the public school novel, right now. | Literary Hub
- 5 must-read crime titles to read this March (which can also be a cruel month). | Literary Hub
- Karolina Ramqvist struggles to balance the public persona of the Writer with the writer who actually writes. | Literary Hub
- The ambition (and hubris) of transhumanism is all too human. | Literary Hub
- Nell Zink on writing for rejection and finally finding “some rigorous realist fiction to love” in Doris Lessing. | n+1
- A theater group has dramatized and reinterpreted the 1971 debate between a panel of feminists (Diana Trilling, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Jacqueline Ceballos) and an angry misogynist (Norman Mailer). | The New Yorker
- Unstable in the present, being dragged from the past, resistant to the future: Mohsin Hamid on the appeal and dangers of nostalgia. | The Guardian
- On the history of feminist bookstores: What contemporary readers owe them and what they reveal about the movement’s failures. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- To capture that as poetry, and to call that your occupation, is to sort of reify your life: An interview with Eileen Myles. | The Rumpus
- In a new Walden-themed video game, players regain inspiration by “reading, attending to sounds of life in the distance, enjoying solitude and interacting with visitors, animal and human.” | The New York Times
- “At no point had I decided to become a so-called ‘chick-lit’ author (whatever that was), and yet apparently, as a young woman who had started out by drawing on her familiar world, I had inadvertently done so.” Ruth Gilligan on constraints placed on female writers. | Read it Forward
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