LitHub Daily: March 8, 2016

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1941, Sherwood Anderson dies after accidentally swallowing a toothpick. 
  • Jonathan Lee on Fernando Pessoa, Joy Williams, German translators, and the deep disquiet of finishing your book. | Literary Hub
  • Twelve writers reflect on the high school English teacher who changed their life. | Literary Hub
  • Summer Brennan on the things writers do to promote their books. | Literary Hub
  • 33 life-changing books from VIDA, in honor of International Women’s Day. | Literary Hub
  • Documents of Luc Sante’s lost youth: an annotated selection of magazine ­covers, collages, and flyers from New York City in the 80s. | The Paris Review
  • Novelists Danielle Dutton, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Jon Methven, and Karan Mahajan cover a wide range of topics, from semen trafficking to the limits of language. | Salon
  • Three cheers for thoughtful innovation, for playfulness that isn’t too showoffy, and for passionate eclecticism: An interview with Margo Jefferson. | Bookslut
  • “You can only understand a novel’s shape when you reach the ending and see all the connections, the repetitions with variations.” An interview with Dana Spiotta. | The Millions
  • A short story collection that was smuggled out of North Korea, and whose anonymous author still resides there, will be published in English next year. | Melville House
  • “You and your wonderful clothes, your perfect clothes, your perfect friends, your uptight, ruinous friends.” A short story by Ann Beattie. | The New Yorker
  • A literary alternative to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, featuring Colm Tóibín, Kevin Barry, and more. | Barnes & Noble Reads
  • “Zines have allowed me to be in control of my own narrative and its dissemination.” A report from the fourth annual NYC Feminist Zine Fest. | Hyperallergic

Also on Literary Hub: The scariest metal band of all time: somewhere in a dungeon in Sydney, Australia, Kriss Hades abides · Books making news this week: debuts, biographies, and alternate history · 30 Books in 30 Days: Joanna Scutts on Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk · Long live mom: from Andy Mozina’s Contrary Motion



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Contrary Motion

 At the wake, my family forms a long receiving line, a bucket brigade of grief, passing mourners toward my father’s casket....