LitHub Daily: February 8, 2016

TODAY: In 1850, Katherine O’Flaherty AKA Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening, is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Hannah Tennant-Moore on the best literary sex scenes. | Literary Hub
• “They couldn’t testify because they were dead so I wanted to lend my own body and voice to them.” Han Kang on writing about the Gwangju massacre. | The Guardian
• A profile of pioneering cartoonist Daniel Clowes, who is much more famous than the world’s most famous badminton player. | The California Sunday Magazine
• Tessa Hadley on writing about ordinary middle-class people, listening to teens, and the difference between speaking with and reading authors. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• For Valentine’s Day, the New York Times got you an online quiz about books. | The New York Times
• “I’d definitely need some Jane Austen on a desert island.” Alison Bechdel on the ten books she would choose to be stranded with. | T Magazine
• Godly is your beauty, honeysweet: A selection of ancient love poems, ghazals, and songs. | Flavorwire
• “As I write this, I’m experiencing the sinking feeling that I will hate the Writers’ Conference.” Richard Grayson’s diary entries from the 1977 Bread Loaf Conference. | Thought Catalog
• The black southern signifiers and simulacra are unrelenting here: On Beyoncé’s “Formation” music video, “a black feminist, black queer, and black queer feminist theory of community organizing and resistance.” | New South Negress

Also on Literary Hub: Inside Writer’s Block Bookstore, where community comes first · Are we losing serious readers? David Denby on teenage reading habits, and the page vs. the screen. ·Revolt in the desert: from Matt Gallagher’s Youngblood

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