Lit Hub Daily: April 12, 2017

TODAY: In 1916, librarian and children’s author Beverly Cleary is born. Over 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. 

• Louise Erdrich returns to Turtle Mountain and all the living and the dead. | Literary Hub
• 10 debut novels that were also masterpieces (happy birthday Madame Bovary!). | Literary Hub
• Lidia Yuknavitch on living a swimmer’s life, finding peace in the water. | Literary Hub
• Florida man talks to Florida woman about Florida crime. | Literary Hub
• Finding radical wisdom at City Lights Bookstore. | Literary Hub
• Unpublished correspondence from 1960 – 1963 between Sylvia Plath and her therapist, Dr. Ruth Barnhouse, alleges multiple instances of domestic abuse by Ted Hughes. | The Guardian
• “I don’t shy away from reading boring or difficult things anymore. Those teach you a lot of words.” An interview with Wayne Koestenbam. | The Creative Independent
• Veteran bookseller Angela Marie Spring has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Duende District, a new bookstore that will be “owned, operated, and managed by a majority of people of color.” | Publishers Weekly
• Every once in a while, poetry is called for: on Gavin Grimm, Naomi Shihab Nye, and the use of poetry in United States courtrooms. | The New York Review of Books
• “I guess in the end I am basically a humanist when it comes to literature: I think most of us simply by virtue of being alive, and therefore experienced language users, have the basic equipment to read most literature.” An interview with Matthew Zapruder. | Poetry Society of America
• “What will move me beyond this state of anesthesia?” Siddhartha Mukherjee on what Chekhov can teach writers about overcoming numbness. | The New Yorker
• Imagine what would happen if women could claim more of this unlimited freedom: Megan Mayhew Bergman on the exclusion of women from the adventure canon. | The Paris Review

Also on Lit Hub: Kerri Arsenault on life in a Maine mill town · Thomas McGuane recalls his friend of 50 years, Jim Harrison · From Anne Garréta’s latest novel, Not One Day, translated by Emma Ramadan.

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