Lit Hub Daily: May 12, 2017

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1970, Swedish poet, playwright, and Novel Prize winner Nelly Sachs dies. 
  • “Place lurks in us like a gene waiting to be expressed.” Sarah Menkedick on Mexico, motherhood, and motherland. | Literary Hub
  • From Leonora Carrington to Suzanne Césaire, women surrealists to turn to in our new political reality. | Literary Hub
  • “A novelist is someone who has a complicated relationship with her mother.” Mary Morris on the ambiguities of maternal love. | Literary Hub
  • New work by Colm Tóibín, Haruki Murakami, and more: The 5 best-reviewed books of this week. | Book Marks
  • All true radicalism has to begin in the body: Samuel R. Delany and Junot Díaz in conversation. | The Boston Review
  • It’s the best, the blood you get from an animal right when it dies. An excerpt from Édouard Louis’ autobiographical novel, The End of Eddy. | Work in Progress
  • She knew words that had been spoken for thousands of years / She knew words that will never be spoken again: “Eulogy,” a poem by Sherman Alexie. | Literary Hub
  • “On a certain level, your first reaction is to cringe. . . especially because the character names in the book are not changed.” A profile of Chris Kraus. | The New York Times
  • “We’re missing out on a fierce mind when we reduce her to a spinster perseverating alone in her room writing poems to the ether.” Interrogating Emily Dickinson’s reclusive reputation. | Hyperallergic
  • “I’m doing my best to recreate that intimacy online, but it’s very important to be sitting next to each other, holding the book, looking each other in the eye.” An interview with Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl. | The Riveter
  • In motherhood, I became a fire-breathing female monster: on raising a disabled son. | Literary Hub
  • All you need to get on now is to be a suited and booted man, who looks like he has an MBA: On the worsening conditions for women in publishing. | The Guardian
  • Hillary Clinton will take a break from the theater to make an appearance at BookExpo 2017 to discuss her several bestselling books. | BookExpo America

Also on Literary Hub: A mother and her trans son find their new middle ground • The week in literary film and TV news • Writing a show about a stay-at-home mom while living away from your kids · An excerpt from Cornelia Nixon’s novel, The Use of Fame

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