Lit Hub Daily: March 13, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1957, in Japan, Sei Itō’s 1950 translation of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is found on appeal in Japan to be obscene.
- A literary fairy tale of New York: the time Anna Pitoniak moved into a famous fictional apartment above a secret bookstore. | Literary Hub
- Is pastiche just a fancy word for fanfiction? Lyndsay Faye on how to write a Sherlock Holmes mystery. | Literary Hub
- Wendy C. Ortiz on the hard lessons of programming a successful reading series. | Literary Hub
- By publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long-lost short story “The I.O.U.,” the New Yorker will provide a happy ending to their “doomed, romantic” relationship with the writer. | The New Yorker
- “I realized the embarrassing parts were most moving to me.” An interview with Elif Batuman. | Vulture
- It was said in those days that the passage was both like dying and like being born: An excerpt from Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West. | Granta
- Nana Oforiatta-Ayim’s Cultural Encyclopedia project will document “past, present and future African arts and culture” and eventually “be published in 54 volumes, one for each country.” | Cultural Encyclopedia, The New York Times
- “How to respond to a time of extreme political and social uncertainty, a time when language itself is contested at every turn, and when urgency seems the order of the day?” On the return (and challenges) of the protest novel. | The Guardian
- Terry Gilliam’s loose interpretation of Don Quixote, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, has finally begun shooting after a series of delays. | IndieWire
- “The fate of our bewildered conversation afterwards about why she said this, whose side she is on, what she expects Faisal’s lawyers to do with it now.” A poem by Anne Carson. | London Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: On the fallen glory of Alexandria’s great library · Michael Salu on creating the look for Freeman’s.
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