Lit Hub Daily: March 12, 2018

• Poems of resistance from Mary Ruefle, Wendy Xu, Christopher Soto and more. | Literary Hub
• On the strange and enduring power of placebos. | Literary Hub
• Are you a Matisse or a Picasso? How Leo and Gertrude Stein revolutionized the art world. | Literary Hub
• Did Thoreau actually live on Walden Pond? | Literary Hub
• “Union was an admirable goal, but Whitman never fully learned a main lesson of the Civil War: it was, most urgently, a war over slavery.” On Walt Whitman’s war writings. | New York Review of Books
• The Trump bump: how the current political climate has led to a resurgence for feminist bookstores. | Publishers Weekly
• “Now, rather than contort myself into Meg, I am able to see how the novel’s play with time and space continues to influence me as an African-American writer.” Salamishah Tillet on A Wrinkle in Time and Ava Duvernay’s adaptation. | The New York Times
• Medical manuscripts, Victorian flirtation cards, and a 17th century book about a vengeful dead cat: scenes from the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. | Hyperallergic
• “I can’t be an Australian writer and not write about this.” Peter Carey on confronting the violence of his country’s colonial past in a new novel. | NPR
• When, if ever, should a dead writer’s wishes be disobeyed? On the complications facing literary executors. | The Guardian
• “I loathe being accused of overthinking. I guess because the accusation often comes from men whom I think are underthinking things.” An interview with Sarah Nicole Prickett. | The Creative Independent

Also on Literary Hub: 10 writers best known for post-mortem publications • New poetry by Shauna Barbosa, from her collection Cape Verdean Blues • New fiction by Yang Huang, from the collectionMy Old Faithful