Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2018

TODAY: In 2006, poet Stanley Kunitz dies.

How to tell your family that you’re writing a memoir. | Lit Hub
On the strange, artistic world of Marfa, Texas. | Lit Hub
We encourage you to experience the unexpected poetry of sleeping outside. | Lit Hub
The first New York Times reviews of each of Virginia Woolf’s ten novels, from The Voyage Out (1915) to the posthumously published Between the Acts (1941). | Book Marks
What’s more important, the auto or the fiction? Christian Lorentzen on new books by Sheila Heti, Helen DeWitt, and Tao Lin. | Vulture
“I wanted to see. . . if we could survey each other at the same time in an act of simultaneous witnessing.” Olivia Laing on sitting for Chantal Joffe. | The Guardian
“We know there are going to be a lot more disasters in the future, so how do we protect our collections in light of that knowledge?” How to protect rare books and manuscripts from climate change. | Pacific Standard
“This book couldn’t exist without some of the trash that people are saying about Appalachia.” An interview with historian and writer Elizabeth Catte. | The Creative Independent
Ever the fools, scientists have released a study alleging that using two spaces after a period is better than using one. | The Atlantic
Speaking with the founder of Black Classic Press, W. Paul Coates, about the press’s success, future plans, and 40-year history. | Publishers Weekly
All the animals are rooting for us: Fiction by Szilvia Molnar. | Triangle House Review

Also on Lit Hub: The sublime, ugly agony of Patrick Melrose: on the new adaptation • YZ Chin on choosing to write in a “colonizer’s language” • A new story by Melanie Rae Thon from AGNI magazine

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