LitHub Daily: May 10, 2016

TODAY: In 1999, Shel Silverstein dies. 

• Why fiction needs more woman scientists. | Literary Hub
• The winner of the Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize. | Literary Hub
• Rick Moody on the dark power of infidelity, and whether or not you should have an affair. | Literary Hub
• Europa Editions’ Michael Reynolds on Elena Ferrante’s class consciousness, the art of translation, and Rome vs. NYC. | Literary Hub
• “It is not George Eliot he would like to pour out tea.” Virginia Woolf on what encourages affection towards authors, republished in honor of Vogue’s 100th anniversary. | Vogue
• Virtue Rewarded: Adelle Waldman on accidental novelist Samuel Richardson, who is widely regarded as the inventor of the form. | The New Yorker
• David Ulin on the literary equivalent of drunk dialing (“ordering books deep into the night”) and connecting with his father through reading. | BuzzFeed Books
• “The world of taffeta and lace exists only on the surface; underneath it, these well-bred young women are trapped like rats.” On Jane Austen as a chronicler of pain. | The American Scholar
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on the genesis and evolution of Between the World and Me, from a freelance piece to a hypothetical a compilation of Civil War essays to a source of literary celebrity. | The Atlantic
• “I wanted to write something truthful or something honest or something real.” Sheila Heti and Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation. | Chicago Review of Books
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux has announced a new imprint called MCD/FSG, which will “publish work and experiment with publishing styles, forms, and genres.” | Publishers Weekly
• Of skin and swamp karma: J. D. Daniels and Mike Nagel discuss Didier Anzieu’s The Skin-Ego. | The Paris Review

Also on Literary Hub: When Shakespeare started a riot: On the anniversary of the Astor Place riots over who played the best Macbeth · Books making news this week: history, hilltops, and horses · The letters of Janet Frame: from Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown.

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