Lit Hub Weekly: April 17- 21, 2017

• I think comedy is a great vehicle for spreading the bad news about who we are: Tracy O’Neill interviews Fiona Maazel. | BOMB Magazine
• Deirdre Coyle on finally reading David Foster Wallace after “having this man’s work recommended to you, over and over, by men who have talked over you, talked down to you, coerced you into certain things, physically forced you into others, and devalued your opinion in ways too subtle to be worth explaining.” | Electric Literature
• “I knew that I wanted to write fiction, and I knew that I wanted to produce innovative scholarship, but I did not know how to do either of those things.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the struggles and doubts of writing. | Los Angeles Times
• When I began her story, when I began grafting her alive on the surface of my skin: An excerpt from The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On the straightjacket of cultural expectations, hysteria, and Leonora Carrington’s “somatic response to society.” | Signature
• For $200/hour, you too can rent the bedroom where Emily Dickinson composed her entire life’s work. | Jezebel
• “When I showed the Milwaukee Police Department how every four days a landlord gets a letter that’s domestic violence-related, and that over 80 percent of the time they evict the tenant, they were shocked.” An interview with Evicted author Matthew Desmond. | VICE
• “Unlike much that passes for the culture of nature, The Peregrine cannot be passively consumed. It sticks in the craw, it rakes the mind.” Robert Marcfarlane on JA Baker’s The Peregrine, 50 years on. | The Guardian
• The 2017 Best Translated Book Award finalists and the Man Booker International Prize 2017 shortlist have been announced. | The Millions, The Man Booker Prizes
• “Cities are not only what they appear to be, but also what they are subjected to: memory, history, desire, forgetfulness, dreams.” Madeleine Thien on Invisible Cities and the continued occupation of Palestinian territories. | Granta
• “If the resistance requires a subscription, it shouldn’t be to the past.” The New Inquiry has relaunched. | The New Inquiry
• “I am someone for whom poetry is a site for meaning making and a place to go to understand my position in the world around me, as well as my position in my own cosmological station.” An interview with Kaveh Akbar. | Slice Magazine
• On the curious case of American Affairs, a “Trump-inspired intellectual magazine.” | The Nation
• Colson Whitehead and Margaret Atwood have earned spots on this year’s TIME 100. | TIME
• Jia Tolentino on her “nauseating read” of Bill O’Reilly’s one and only novel, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder. | The New Yorker
• “I wanted to write a love poem / the most impossible thing / and I did / and it wasn’t hard” A new poem by Leopoldine Core. | New York Tyrant

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