
Lit Hub Daily: April 11, 2018
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1923, Seán O’Casey‘s drama The Shadow of a Gunman, the first of his “Dublin Trilogy,” opens at the Abbey Theatre.
- What if the lefty hoaxers are right? William T. Vollmann investigates climate change denial and the end of the world as we know it. | Lit Hub
- Madeline Miller on restoring power to the women of ancient myth (and to women in classics departments). | Lit Hub
- There are thousands of Kurt Vonnegut tattoos on the internet. Guess which one is the most common? | Lit Hub
- Dear Book Therapist: Rosalie Knecht has the literary prescription for someone who seems to have lost it all. | Lit Hub
- Adrian McKinty on crime novelist David Peace: we ordinary blokes are doomed because our lives are governed by a cabal of the wealthy, the wicked, and the powerful. | CrimeReads
- “Read Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters and say the name Stieglitz hatefully to yourself as you piss.” Some very Patricia Lockwood advice about how to write right now. | Tin House
- To read Williams is to move dazed between the mundane and the profound: On Joy Williams’s The Changeling, which “overwhelmed its first critics in 1978.” | The Baffler
- Maybe, just maybe, poets actually are aliens. | Lit Hub
- “You read that right: female literary agents rejecting books by men resulted in the US housing crash.” Or, you know, not. Lauren Spieller on why #MisandryInPublishing is not a thing. | The Guardian
- Get excited, fellow nerds: a new J. R. R. Tolkien novel, set in Middle-earth, is due to be published this year. | Vulture
- “I’ve always also been interested in the fullness, so to speak, of absence.” Dawn Lundy Martin in conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten. | BOMB Magazine
- One year before she published Geek Love (and became a “cult” figure in her own right), Katherine Dunn interviewed Rajneeshpuram’s erstwhile spokesperson Ma Anand Sheela on the cusp of her release from prison. | Willamette Week
- The long list for the Best Translated Book Awards has been announced. | The Millions
Also on Literary Hub: Writers need the woods: On the stories that dwell in the forest · Gregory Pardlo on how to pretend you’ve read a book you haven’t · Read from C.D. Rose’s new novel, Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else
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