Lit Hub Daily: March 29, 2017

TODAY: The stage première of Max Frisch’s dark comedy Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers) appears at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

• Broken ankles, double dares, killing time at work… On the accidental origins of iconic works of literature. | Literary Hub
• Angela Carter truly did not care what the critics thought, and was happy to let them know. | Literary Hub
• On the thoroughly unglamorous experience of recording your own audiobook. | Literary Hub
• “This is what we can do—writing these stories that remind them that they are wanted, they are necessary, that they matter, and that they’re loved.” Jennifer Niven and Nicola Yoon discuss the responsibilities that YA authors have to their readers. | MTV News
• A reproduction of the late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley’s handwritten journals is forthcoming from Da Capo Press. | Los Angeles Times
• Christian Lorentzen on the many lives of Angela Carter, whose “literary taste cut against the English tendency toward middlebrow anti-intellectualism.” | Vulture
• A blowjob is a blowjob is a blowjob: on the difficulty of representing fellatio in literature. | Broadly
• “What people expect from a black story is a racism-driven plot.” An interview with Brit Bennet. | The Millions
• She had dreamed of holding one of her father’s guns for so many years that it was as if she were dreaming now: an excerpt from Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On Julio Cortázar’s Berkeley lectures, which demonstrate his “radical awakening to a frankly political, though never crudely didactic, art.” | The Atlantic
• The 10th annual Best Translated Book Awards longlist has been announced. | Three Percent

Also on Lit Hub: On the tireless work of translator Megan McDowell · Juan Pablo Villalobos has some terrific ideas about building a border wall.

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