Lit Hub Daily: August 8, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1936, Native author Mourning Dove, best known for her novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range, dies.
- “She has produced caviar for the connoisseurs of the cryptic, the bizarre, the eerie, guiding us along the frontiers between commonplace reality and some strange ‘absolute reality’ of her own.” A 1959 review of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. | Book Marks
- How a YA novel went from being deemed “an uncompromising condemnation of prejudice and injustice” to “racist, ableist, homophobic, and. . . written with no marginalized people in mind”—all before its publication date. | Vulture
- “These women are perfectly imperfect—and their imperfections are carefully tailored to evoke in their black viewers a sense of recognition.” On Danzy Senna’s New People and the rise of the “carefree black girl” archetype. | The New Yorker
- “This is one reason I love it: it always seems to escape me when I try to classify it.” On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and fiction that exists between genres. | Tor
- Why must this uniquely successful genre keep enduring slights and insults? On the thriving romance genre and the “economic power of reading women.” | The Washington Post
- “The Odyssey taught me that the most interesting things happen in the spaces in between: not in the war or in Ithaca, not in school or at home, but somewhere else.” Translator Emily Wilson on portraying Athena as a young girl. | The Paris Review
- Responding to the refugee crisis: How children’s book authors are using fiction “to humanize and personalize the ongoing conflict for young readers.” | The New York Times
- The Nation has appointed Steph Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith as poetry editors and announced that they will “build out a more robust poetry vertical online.” | The Nation
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