Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2018
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1947, Dutch-language author Astrid Roemer writer is born.
- Ten things you should probably know about lists on the Internet: a public service announcement. | Lit Hub
- Do we even need men? John Launer tackles some tricky questions posed by the theory of evolution. | Lit Hub
- Poet Michael Wasson on finding inspiration from Kurt Cobain to life in a rural Japanese village. | Lit Hub
- Julia Ingalls on the origins of the serial killer: modern monster and pop culture celebrity. | CrimeReads
- “I wanted to have a life that would include people the State of California has rendered invisible.” Profiling Rachel Kushner on the cusp of her new women’s prison-set novel. | The New Yorker
- Colette Shade: when fiction pulls back the curtain on American conservatism. | Lit Hub
- A new study of more than 2 million books reveals that on average, books by women are priced 45 percent lower than those by men (and that genres traditionally considered female-oriented are assigned less value by the industry). | Fast Company
- Get to know the nominees for the richest short story prize in the world! | Lit Hub
- “The invention of the space may have been as fundamentally important as the invention of zero in mathematics.” César Aira on a childhood job and learning to type. | Tin House
- “What, then, are the real criteria for membership in this dubious category?” On Curtis Sittenfeld and “chick lit.” | The Paris Review
- Elif Batuman, Kamila Shamsie, Jesmyn Ward, and more: the shortlist for the 2018 Women’s Prize for fiction has been announced. | The Guardian
- “I think of that store and consider it my family.” Kristen Arnett on the joys and comforts of 7-11. | Medium
- “I discovered that most people knew almost nothing about bees.” Paige Embry on the unlikely passion that motivated her first book. | Powell’s
Also on Literary Hub: Always be reading Alice Munro: Curtis Sittenfeld on the books in her life · Read “The Village Idiot” by Majidah al-Outoum, from the new issue of The Common · Inspired by the dictionary, new short fiction by Jez Burrows
Article continues after advertisement
Lit Hub Daily
The best of the literary Internet, every day, brought to you by Literary Hub.



















