Lit Hub Daily: April 14, 2017

TODAY: In 1964, Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring helped spur the global environmental movement, dies. 

• From Sofia Coppola to Dostoevsky, your literary guide to the Cannes Film Festival. | Literary Hub
• The greatest poetry reading I’ve ever seen: Joan Brady, on stage in the Arctic Circle with Yevgeny Yevtushenko. | Literary Hub
• An exile’s return to Iran, and the novel it inspired. | Literary Hub
• Wild witches, domestic witches, witches in the suburbs! | Literary Hub
• “And the fly, as usual, flew into his mouth.” Read a previously unpublished short story by the great Leonora Carrington. | Literary Hub
• “Paley became a knower of women, a conscious feminist, and a writer all at once.” On Grace Paley’s collected writing. | The New Republic
• Have we had the video game Citizen Kane yet?, and other thoughts on video games from Tony Tulathimutte. | Electric Literature
• “Why spend time with such endearing, clever characters if you’re not going to let them do their job?” In praise of Agatha Christie’s storytelling crime solvers. | The New York Times
• History is full of people who just didn’t: Anne Boyer on the power of no. | Harriet
• Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney recommends some of her favorite books about the Golden State. | The Center for Fiction
• “Why didn’t you contact my agent? … You’re all so selfish.” On the man who tracked down J.D. Salinger in pursuit of film rights to The Catcher in the Rye. | The Paris Review
• My point never was to shock the reader: An interview with Emily Fridlund. | ZYZZYVA

Also on Lit Hub: On the legendary life of Gertrude Abercrombie, Queen of the Bohemians · From Page to Screen: the week in literary film and TV news · Read from Dani Shapiro’s new memoir, Hourglass.

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