Lit Hub Daily: February 13, 2019

• “There is a way of telling the history of Western poetry and its evolutions over a millennium that begins with sheep.” A dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. | Lit Hub
• How to teach English with a music video: on Kate Bush’s radical interpretation of Wuthering Heights. | Lit Hub
• “Grow up. I’ll see you at midnight.” 11 literary pickup lines (nearly) guaranteed to get you a date. | Lit Hub
• What will social networks look like after the internet? An Afrofuturistic vision of offline communities. | Lit Hub
• 10 Great Unconventional Love Stories in Literature: featuring robot romance, shapeshifter sex, aquatic affairs, and more.  | Book Marks
• Lucy Foley on the unsettling world of Agatha Christie, who “tends to look at why ordinary, otherwise law-abiding people kill—and that, surely, is the more terrifying premise.” | CrimeReads
• Ottessa Moshfegh profiles”the spiritual hero of [her] novel, and [her] only idol,” Whoopi Goldberg. | Garage
• Toni Morrison on Beloved in an excerpt from her new book, The Source of Self-Regard. | Shondaland
• Just because we love you: here are some beautiful book covers published between 1820 and 1914. | Public Domain Review
• “Journey…journey…adventure…love…fellowship…” Watch the first trailer for Tolkien, the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic. | Deadline
• Is email making professors stupid? (And could they turn it off?) | The Chronicle Review
• Filmmaker Max Joseph’s guide to the most visually stunning bookstores in the world (or his, at least). | GQ
• How Joseph Buttigieg, the scholar who helped compile the English-language version of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, influenced his son, presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. | The Nation

Also on Lit Hub: Soraya Chemaly on Reading Women • Brad Phillips on Otherppl • Notes on an Italian getaway in Australia • In praise of the poetry reading • Read from Territory of Light