Lit Hub Daily: March 10, 2017

TODAY: In 1940, author of The Master and Margarita, Mikhaíl Bulgakov, dies.

• How I came to the church of rock and roll: Darcey Steinke on finding a little faith. | Literary Hub
• 75 covers of The Master and Margarita, ranked, with comment. | Literary Hub
• Margaret Atwood on seeing her dystopian visions come to pass. | Literary Hub
• On persistence: The lessons of a middle-aged debut novelist. | Literary Hub
• In praise of Buffy: 10 famous writers share their love for the vampire slayer. | Literary Hub
• Kerry Washington will produce an adaptation of Brit Bennet’s debut novel The Mothers with Warner Bros. | The Hollywood Reporter
• “All of Le Guin’s moments, all the recognition and admiration, fall short of her actual accomplishments.” Karen Joy Fowler introduces a new essay collection by Ursula K. LeGuin, forthcoming this December. | Entertainment Weekly
• Read Alexander Chee on Rufus Wainwright, Angela Flournoy on Solange, and Margo Jefferson on Cécile McLorin Salvant (among many others) in the New York Times Magazine’s annual music issue. | NYT Mag
• “Perhaps, we as scholars and writers, will be more conscious of how we reproduce systems of power, privilege, and oppression and we will work to subvert these systems in our work.” An interview with Marisa J. Fuentes and an excerpt from her book Dispossessed Lives. | Full Stop
• Paul LaFarge on the curiously intimate friendship between H. P. Lovecraft and his then-16-year-old fan, Robert Barlow. | The New Yorker
• Amiable With Big Teeth, the newly discovered novel by Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay, is “is a master key to the intersection of race and global revolutionary politics.” | The Atlantic
• Danielle Dutton and Gavin McCrea talk memory, writing historical fiction, and Friedrich Engels’ penis. | Catapult

Also on Lit Hub: How K.E. Semmel fell in love with books · Joshua Mohr on the time he robbed a liquor store · From Ryan Ruby’s new novel.

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