Lit Hub Daily: March 9, 2017

TODAY: In 1892, poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West (left), remembered as the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, is born..

• Paul La Farge and Ed Park discuss Cthulu, Esperanto, and the pleasures of taking a year to write an essay. | Literary Hub
• Paul French on the greatest French crime writer you’ve never heard of. | Literary Hub
• The view from the Trans-Siberian Express: Rosa Liksom travels Putin’s Russia, talks Trump. | Literary Hub
• Literary muses, from best to worst. | Literary Hub
• To continue expanding your to be read pile post-International Women’s Day: Recommendations of 33 international writers who are “bold for change” and ten brilliant poet-translator pairings. | Words Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation
• “It is still hard for me to imagine me, or someone like me, in my role.” Mary Beard on our gendered conceptions of power, from Greek mythology to politics today. | London Review of Books
• This was highly irregular: An excerpt from Lincoln in the Bardo (and audiobook excerpt, ft. Nick Offerman, David Sedaris and George Saunders.) | Times Literary Supplement
• An update on the 32-part television series based on the Neapolitan novels, which references both Adam Driver and The Young Pope. | The New York Times
• “Good fiction is often about connection, about feeling less alone, about imagining yourself into other people’s shoes and finding your own imaginative limits, as a writer and a reader.” Jonathan Lee on drawing inspiration from Zadie Smith. | The Atlantic
• “The object is to be seen or heard, and I make a lot of noise.” Speaking with Instagram poet Reuben Holmes, a.k.a r.H.Sin. | The New Yorker
• “My sister met Hugh Hefner at a sushi bar called Geisha House in Hollywood he definitely had on a purple crushed velvet jacket…” Two poems by Khadijah Queen. | Hyperallergic

Also on Lit Hub: Bethanne Patrick on some great February titles you might have missed · Elena Marcu’s diary of Romanian resistance.

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