LitHub Daily: June 14, 2016

TODAY: In 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is born. 

• Death and the animals: Pauls Toutonghi  on dogs that came back, trapped goats, and dying cats. | Literary Hub
• Writer, mother, both, neither: Belle Boggs on childcare, AWP, and leading the triple life. | Literary Hub
• Jonathan Russell Clark on the 30th anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges. | Literary Hub
• Think of the danger: four poems by Thea Brown. | Literary Hub
• The most important basketball game in the country (on Wednesday): Writers and Publishers renew their bitter rivalry on the hardwood. | Literary Hub
• “Books that don’t engage the reader on an emotional level have a hard time staying with them, and if I want the reader to cry a little bit—and I do!—I also want them to laugh.” An interview with Dorthe Nors. | BOMB Magazine
• Beyond the succession of Girl Stories: On new collections by Abigail Ulman and Rebecca Schiff. | The Atlantic
• “Peat is harvested from bogs, watery mires where the earth yawns open.” A short story by Karen Russell. | The New Yorker
• Unmasking truths beyond the individual self: On the gendered conceptions about and continued relevance of “confessional poetry.” | Desi Writers’ Lounge Blog
• “I was darkly interested, for various reasons, in people who die on the loo, who end their days alone on a cold plastic seat, mid-shit.” Max Porter on Francis Bacon’s Triptych May–June 1973. | The Paris Review
• “It’s always about that mystery, isn’t it?” Allison Amend and Michelle Hoover in conversation. | Fiction Writers Review
• Humor needn’t be a diluting agent; it can be a Trojan horse: Dayna Tortorici on new books by Jessica Valenti and Lindy West. | The New York Times
• Why we shouldn’t use periods, compellingly argued with the text conversation “I love my cat/I can’t live without her/Omg.” | The Washington Post

Also on Literary Hub: An execution: from Matthew Carr’s The Devils of Cardona · Books making news this week: forests, feathers, and first books · No one until you: from Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide, now out in paperback

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