Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2018

• On Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, and the timeless tradition of mansplaining. | Lit Hub
• “There are things more interesting than people.” Walking in the woods with Richard Powers can be pretty intense.  | Lit Hub
• Finally, your favorite 90s Shakspeare adaptions definitively ranked. | Lit Hub
• Neither spy nor innocent: the diplomat as detective in Graham Greene, Javier Marías, Hilary Mantel, and more. | CrimeReads
• “Middlemarch goes further than rejecting social class as an arbiter of worth—it suggests that the vitality required to thrive in a changing world is not to be found in the aristocracy.” Jennifer Egan on George Eliot’s masterpiece. | The Guardian
• PBS’s The Great American Read has released its list of America’s 100 most-loved books (as chosen by a national survey). | PBS
• Years after his death, the great Barry Hannah haunts us still: Michael Bible remembers a true writer’s writer. | Lit Hub
• “They were not sad, lonely spinsters . . . They were actively engaged in culture and spirituality and creation.” Sheila Heti on childless writers and Motherhood. | Publishers Weekly
• Emergence—a multimedia magazine that seeks to “find the timeless connections between culture and ecology”—has launched with writing by Paul Kingsnorth, art by Katie Holten, and more. | Emergence
• Sometimes, the best way to read a book is to mark it up: on the pleasures of handwritten annotation. | Lit Hub
• Four years after his death, revisiting the first English language reviews of every Gabriel García Márquez novel. | Book Marks
• “You can do a lot of pretty philosophizing with yourself and still find that your work relies on the death of another human being.” Cutter Wood on the complicity of true crime writing. | The Paris Review
• A look at the buyers in a recent auction of Sylvia Plath’s belongings, including writer A.N. Devers, who took home Plath’s green tartan skirt. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Bonnie Nadzam talks to Gregory Blake Smith about writing across time and voice · New poetry from Abraham Smith’s book-length poem, Destruction of Man · Read from Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse