LitHub Daily: May 1, 2015

TODAY: This date is the subject of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “May Day,” about the 1919 May Day Riots. 

• What are the politics of oversharing? A discussion between Sarah Gerard and Ben Fama on influence, the balance of candor and artificiality, and public personae. | Literary Hub
• This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day; here is a round-up of events occurring nationwide (and information about ours). | Melville House, Bookstore Day NYC
• To address a carcass is to liquefy it: on the decompositional, expansive poetry and performance art of Ariana Reines. | n+1
• The “colorlessness” of the avante-garde: on the purposeful exclusion of identity poetics from experimental writing. | The Boston Review
• ‪Books on music and music on books: an interview with Philip Glass. | The New York Times
• The Guggenheim has put 109 archival art books online for free, complete with a very life-like page-turning sensation. | The Guggenheim
• Googling through the apocalypse: an excerpt from Chinese Bible, the winner of the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. | Graywolf Press
• Thanks, Obama (really, though): the White House is providing $250 million in free e-books to low-income students. | Voice of America
• On the openness of New York City, narrative structure, and memories: an interview with Teju Cole. | The Oyster Review
• “Patriarchy is neither universal nor inevitable.” Gloria Steinem on Paula Gunn Allen’s The Sacred Hoop. | Flavorwire
• For everyone desperate to stay timely and hip, author Erik Larson is live-tweeting the last voyage of the Lusitania, 100 years later. | Twitter

 

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