LitHub Daily: September 2, 2016

TODAY: In 1946, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh opens on Broadway. 

• Michael Koryta on the editor inside his head, a cruel and demanding S.O.B. | Literary Hub
• The forgotten history of Florence’s mixed-race Medici, a duke foully murdered. | Literary Hub
• How Jorge Luis Borges taught me to embrace my Jewish heritage. | Literary Hub
• Franz Nicolay’s dispatches from a punk tour of the Balkans. | Literary Hub
• “Her ‘thing’ was not having a ‘thing,’ apart from a roving curiosity, which helps explain both her contemporary appeal and, perhaps, her relative obscurity. “ On the poetry of Bernadette Mayer. | The New Yorker
• Thoughts trickle in and out: A poem by Anne Carson. | The London Review of Books
• On the potent symbolism of the Christodora House and Tim Murphy’s recent novel named after it. | The New York Times
• Garnette Cadogan on the Flushing Remonstrance, “a reminder to New Yorkers today of the intellectual and moral resources we have to combat the challenges brought on by pluralism—particularly the temptation to harass and persecute people who think or look differently than we do.” | Catapult
• On recent books about revolutionaries Lizzie Burns, Nellie Dowell, Muriel Lester, and Eleanor Marx, whose lives “reveal the centrality of patriarchy to capitalism.” | Public Books
• “a royal crown of bitches/Toss and purr.” Poetry by Robin Coste Lewis. | BuzzFeed Reader
• On bookstore dogs and cats (and pigs and chickens and chinchillas and ferrets). | American Booksellers Association

Also on Literary Hub: On writing, parenthood and trying to stay a little wild · Welcome to Painterland: the art scene rebels of San Fransisco · They’re staying for the dead: from Kathleen Donohoe’s Ashes of Fiery Weather

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