LitHub Daily: June 3, 2015

TODAY: In 1968, Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, tries to assassinate Andy Warhol. 

• Roxana Robinson on the sly feminism of the writer Elizabeth Taylor. | Literary Hub
• “I cannot hold my baby at the same time as I write.” A group of recent books interrogates the institution, implications, and indispensability of family. | Bookforum
• “I also know that many human beings have an innate resistance to baloney and a taste for quality rooted deeper than even marketing can reach,” attests eternal optimist and anti-Amazon advocate Ursula K. Le Guin. | Electric Literature
• “The criticisms leveled against the modern-day Black feminists… are similar to those Black Macho ” Jamilah Lemieux’s introduction to a new edition of Michele Wallace’s seminal and controversial black feminist text. | The New Republic
• Literature on fashion and its philosophies: on Women in Clothes and the quest to discuss clothing intelligently. | Public Books
• Translating Mallarmé’s groundbreaking Un Coup de dés, an esoteric, free verse poem that stretches across 11 open-face pages and breaks completely from typographic conventions. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• An F. Scott Fitzgerald biopic is in the works. If it doesn’t include his dick-measuring contest with Hemingway, we refuse to see it. | The Dissolve
• “Must everything in the world be a zero-sum game?” Reflections on humanity spurred by the discovery of 380 baht. | Asymptote
• “They drilled our throats and scattered / our limbs – / it was like an anatomy lesson!” Understanding the jihadis through their poetry. | The New Yorker

Also on Literary Hub: The the fine art of the footnote · David Gates describes some scenes from a marriage · A compact epic poem by Lisa Robertson

 

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