Lit Hub Daily: March 20, 2017

TODAY: In 1828, Norwegian playright Henrik Ibsen is born.

• Gabrielle Bellot remembers Derek Walcott, poet of twilight, poet of the Caribbean
• On the writing wisdom of Derek Walcott. | Literary Hub
• Pankaj Mishra: “We committed intellectual suicide on 9/11.” | Literary Hub
• Dark, profane, deeply criminal Florida: Dwyer Murphy visits Miami’s SleuthFest. | Literary Hub
• Just how partisan is the Supreme Court? | Literary Hub
• “That last weekend I saw him filled my heart with his joy, his immense and remarkable love, his visceral way with words both loving and cross, tangy and salty, sweet, gentle, and filled with love of the physical plane.” Mario Batali on his friendship with Jim Harrison. | The New Yorker
• People here were so attached to their idea of a liberal city that they couldn’t see that it was strikingly segregated: Karan Mahajan on living in Austin. | The New York Times
• “Reading poems, embodying in words a chain of apprehensions, is to know something of a particular writer’s way of being in the world.” Nick Laird on the empathetic act of writing (and reading) poetry. | The Guardian
• In grief we turn unapologetically inward, toward what we have lost and with little regard for who and what is still left: On living with loss and Roland Barthes’s Mourning Diary. | Hazlitt
• A look at the library at Grey Gardens, which is, “of course, eccentric.” | The Paris Review
• On invented linguistic systems, from International Auxiliary Languages to “art-langs.” | Times Literary Supplement
• For lack of any other pressing obligations, George R.R. Martin is opening a new film studio. | Rolling Stone

Also on Lit Hub: Workshopping Shakespeare: a literary history of the Bard’s rough drafts · From a graphic biography of Zora Neale Hurston.

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