Lit Hub Daily: March 19, 2018

• From her wallet to her typewriter, the personal effects of Sylvia Plath are now for sale. | Lit Hub
• Does The Virgin Suicides hold up 25 years later? | Lit Hub
• When bookstores stand against censorship: Rachel Kaplan on why we need queer books. | Lit Hub
• On the agony and ecstasy of taking author photos (mainly the agony). | Lit Hub
• In honor of Philip Roth’s 85th birthday, a look back at the first responses to the novel the New Yorker greeted as “one of the dirtiest books ever published.” | Book Marks
• Whatever your taste in crime, your perfect podcast is waiting for you, right now: The essential crime podcasts of spring 2018. | CrimeReads
• 52 postcards from America: Camille T. Dungy, Alexander Chee, and other writers and public figures on the issues capturing the attention of their communities. | Pacific Standard
• “I never know why certain images, preserved by memory, are still so fertile. I’m not sure why they evoke the stories that they do.” A profile of Mario Vargas Llosa. | Words Without Borders
• “I have to sink a bucket down into that dark well and figure out what’s been happening below the surface.” An interview with Ramona Ausubel. | Electric Literature
• A frenetic pursuit of masculinity has characterized public life in the west since 9/11: Pankaj Mishra on our global crisis of masculinity, and its historical precedents. | The Guardian
• “Five years ago, people would have asked, ‘Why are you publishing these books? No one is interested.’” On the recent success of feminist presses. | Publishers Weekly
• Who will become the next editor-in-chief of the Paris Review? On the eight identified candidates (and one “token man”) in the running. | Vulture
• “It isn’t being twisted in any direction it’s not comfortable with—it’s just being given wings.” On the stage adaptation of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. | The New York Times

Also on Lit Hub: David Ulin on where our anger will lead us • The curious case ofNorway’s dueling writing systems. • From Najla Jraissaty Khoury’s collected tales of Lebanon