LitHub Daily: May 14, 2015

TODAY: In 1979, Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea, died.

• Rock musicians aren’t squeamish about selling their stuff, so why are writers? Jim Ruland on why he’s a hustler, baby. | Literary Hub
• As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from fitful sleep, he found himself translated into all manners of monstrous vermin. | The Guardian
• A report from the immortal battle of Internet vs. Print: The New York Times, Buzzfeed, NBC News and NatGeo began publishing articles directly on Facebook; Vol. 1 is publishing a zine entitled “Sandwich Stories.” | USA Today, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• “They shut / us up and kept us / from remembering that / if they fixed the streets children / wouldn’t have rocks / to throw in the first place.” Poetry by Baltimore students. | Real Pants
• Sarah Gerard has begun a monthly column that will observe “how the self arises in a notebook, or is hidden from it” by looking at artists’ journals. | Hazlitt
• Presenting the Patriarchs: the performance of “Traditional Africa” at PEN World Voices. | The New Inquiry
• Crafted, shaped, radical vulnerability: a conversation between Suzanne Scanlon and Kate Zambreno. | BOMB Magazine
• “I shout because I want to be heard, not as a madwoman in the attic, not as a ghost in a hallway, but as a fellow woman of the world.” Gabrielle Bellot on the female identity and its presentation in global literature. | Prairie Schooner
• Searching for Patricia Lockwood’s metaphorical tit-pics. | The Missouri Review
• Until Kindle figures out how to store sentiment, physical books will always have an emotional edge. | The New York Times
• Libraries are now walking around, thus getting one step closer to becoming dateable. | Hyperallergic

 

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