Lit Hub Daily: March 15, 2017

TODAY: In 1852, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist, and co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre with W. B. Yeats, is born.

• Roxane Gay, Aimee Bender, and more on assault and harassment in the literary community, in response to Bonnie Nazdam’s essay, “Experts in the Field.” | Literary Hub, Tin House
• WORD turns ten! Jami Attenberg on the bookstore that changed her career. | Literary Hub
• When “femininity” is code for “feelings.” Lynn Steger Strong on failure, motherhood, and the fragility of birds. | Literary Hub
• On polyamory, sexual gentrification, and the investigations of Emily Witt. | Literary Hub
• The Man Booker International Prize longlist has been announced: nominees include Ismail Kadare, Amos Oz, Dorthe Nors, Yan Lianke, and more. | The Guardian
• “If their books still resonate, it is not because they reflect the zeitgeist, but because they run so profoundly against it.” On the continued success of five writers who became popular in the nineties. | New Republic
• On the writing of Grace Paley, which embeds “us in slow daily time in order to confront us, obliquely or directly, with urgent historical time.” | The Atlantic
• “I told my best friend wolves were circling my house and wanted to eat my babies.” Samantha Hunt on motherhood, the Internet, morphic resonance, and much more. | Lapham’s Quarterly
• “The basic premise of his career was that slavery and white supremacy, for all their fearsome might, could be defeated through a political struggle that transcended racial and regional divisions.” On two new books illuminating the urgency of Frederick Douglass’ political vision. | The Nation
• “I think my writing can be seen as a tree that is growing continuously all the time.” Porochista Khakpour interviews Can Xue. | Words Without Borders
• The 29th annual Lambda Literary Award finalists, including Jacqueline Woodson, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Rabih Alameddine, have been announced. | Lambda Literary
• As its 40th birthday approaches, visiting the feminist bookstore and vegetarian restaurant Bloodroot, whose fans included Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich. | The New York Times
• “if living proves/anything it’s that such astonishment is possible” A poem by Kaveh Akbar. | Tin House

Also on Lit Hub: Ultra-violent women: a dark reading list from Felicia C. Sullivan · From Dog Food magazine, 10 photographers on the books and movies that inspire them.

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