Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1906, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator, and wife of Charles Lindbergh, is born.
- 10 famous book hoarders who almost certainly have more books than you. | Literary Hub
- How did America’s banks gain so much political power? | Literary Hub
- Pamela Paul on the beauty of a disorganized bookshelf. | Literary Hub
- Why has no one heard of the world’s first poet? | Literary Hub
- Victor Lavalle on Shirley Jackson, Jean Rhys, and a child-killing clown. | Literary Hub
- Gerda Saunders’ field notes from the frontlines of her own dementia. | Literary Hub
- The long walk home: Two decades after its publication, a look back at Cold Mountain. | Book Marks
- “If visual and conceptual artists were foundational to the Occupy movement, what about novelists?” On contemporary American literature’s (lack of) engagement with Occupy Wall Street. | The Baffler
- Do we tend to forget that our mothers are women? On Mommie Dearest, Book of Mutter, and mother-beasts. | The Paris Review
- A story set in the past can haunt us for reasons other than literal monsters that lurk on the page: Tobias Carroll recommends books combining history and horror. | Tor
- Despite threatened budget cuts, the NEA has issued 1,195 new grants totaling $84.06 million. | Publishers Weekly
- “It saddened her that this was the man she had chosen to sleep with for a whole summer into autumn. . .” An excerpt from The Answers by Catherine Lacey. | Electric Literature
- The Flarfists slow-cook their verbiage by hand: On a new anthology of Flarf poetry. | BOMB Magazine
- “That first queer book club made me gay. Or rather, I joined it to be made gay.” On the importance of book clubs to marginalized communities. | JSTOR
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