LitHub Daily: April 22, 2016

TODAY: In 1873, Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born. 

• Prince: Alexander Chee, Naomi Jackson, and Kaitlyn Greenidge remember the artist formerly known as. | Literary Hub
• Voices from the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: Edward Snowden, Aminatta Forna, Mona Eltahawy, and Tom Stoppard. | Literary Hub
• Rebecca Schiff on her abnormally quiet Jewish family. | Literary Hub
• What kind of day job should a writer have? | Literary Hub
• Elena Ferrante, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Marilynne Robinson have been deemed officially influential. | Time Magazine
• The New Yorker writers pay tribute to Prince and “his music, his spirit, his playfulness, his petulance, his bravery, his youth, his wisdom, his weirdness, his virtuosity, and his vision.” | The New Yorker
• “That general condition of the poetry world entirely sucks yet frankly it is not my life quest to upend it.” Eileen Myles on submissions, spats with editors, and getting paid. | Harriet
• Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn, and 22 others share their fondest Shakespeare memories. | Signature Reads
• “The rest of us, in other words, were thinking only of ourselves and how long we had to be ourselves.” An excerpt from Manuel Gonzales’ The Regional Office is Under Attack!. | BuzzFeed Books
• Investigating what drives W.S. Merwin, an “award-winning poet, mentee of Ezra Pound himself, to spend his rich, final years in the quiet gardens of palm trees.” | Consortium Bookslinger
• Idra Novey on translating daydreams about goat udders and “the immense pleasure of blushing at the wildness” of her own writing. | Catapult
• You don’t have to be a tortured genius to let your genius thrive: On Esmé Weijun Wang’s debut novel and Encouragement Notes series. | Women in the World

Also on Literary Hub: How to draw a dragon: on designing the cover for Lian Hearn’s The Tale of Shikanoko · Remembering the poets who fought for Irish independence · An alternate history: Y.T. by Alexei Nikitin, trans. Anne Marie Jackson

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