Lit Hub Daily: April 5, 2017

TODAY: In 2005, Saul Bellow dies.

• 20 rare photographs of Allen Ginsberg, on the anniversary of his death. | Literary Hub
• The longest winter: a year-by-year account of Max Winter’s 15-year journey to a novel. | Literary Hub
• On the illusive nature of authorship, from Shakespeare to The Art of the Deal. | Literary Hub
• Brandon Taylor: How Elizabeth Bishop and Stevie Nicks helped me through grief and loss. | Literary Hub
• A literary history of hysteria, witches, and the “wandering uterus.” | Literary Hub
• It ought to put a stop to the writing of prescriptive Utopias for at least 10 years: A 1975 review of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. | Book Marks
• On Greenwich Village’s Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, which has remained in the same building for 25 years (and served in 2016 as one of the Bernie Sanders campaign’s Manhattan headquarters). | The New York Times
• “Who knows what will be significant when we have moved on to whatever is waiting or not waiting?” An excerpt from Kristen Radtke’s graphic memoir, Imagine Wanting Only This. | BuzzFeed Reader
• Ragnar Jónasson on translating Agatha Christie into Icelandic—and why Lord Edgware Dies took him 10 years, due to a single, two-word clue. | The Guardian
• “It took me a while to realize I both desperately love and desperately hate attention in incredible, exactly equal amounts.” An interview with literally show me a healthy person author Darcie Wilder. | Hazlitt
• On the morning of the first of May 1934, very early, I went to visit the hyena: Two surreal short stories by Leonora Carrington. | VICE
• “When I write a novel—or any book—I write it as if it is the last thing I am ever going to say in this world.” An interview with Charles Johnson. | New England Review
• Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear: Watch Alec Baldwin read from Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America. | Library of America

Also on Lit Hub: Alexander McCall Smith on the books in his life · On Trump’s enthusiastic modeling of Putin.

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