Lit Hub Daily: September 12, 2017

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1892, 11-year-old Virginia Stephen (later known as Virginia Woolf) takes a boat trip to Godrevy Lighthouse on a family holiday in Cornwall. 
  • On the divinity of writing about dogs. | Literary Hub
  • Josh Weil: The ways in which a novel can fail like a marriage. | Literary Hub
  • 25 classes taught by famous writers, this fall at a college near you. | Literary Hub
  • Kaveh Akbar on discovering poetry in childhood prayer. | Literary Hub
  • Celeste Ng: “I have always been political.” | Literary Hub
  • Drinking with Stalin on the eve of the Cold War: the fascinating life and times of James B. Conant. | Literary Hub
  • The confessions of Nathan Englander: “I would have made a terrible spy.” | Literary Hub
  • “I think that ghosts are embodiments of the past. Especially here in the South because we’re so close to the past.” An interview with Jesmyn Ward. | The Millions
  • “While the terms identity politics and intersectionality have taken hold of our discourse, the substance of these theories has been left behind.” Mychal Denzel Smith on what liberals misunderstand about identity politics. | The New Republic
  • On the writing of Joyce Maynard, the “Joyce Carol Oates of women’s confessional essays.” | The Atlantic
  • Elisa Gabbert on her literary guilty pleasure: reading the introductions to great books and not the books themselves. | The Paris Review
  • “your name so/perfectly/combines/New Testament/righteous purity/with American/white immigrant/self pity”: Matthew Zapruder’s poem, “Paul Ryan.” | Tin House
  • “Soft-core, low-fi, and Aquarian, Merwin’s asceticism has always had about it the prowess of a sophisticate.” On the collected poems of W.S. Merwin. | The New Yorker
  • The distance between curiosity and fear is tragically short: Hanif Abdurraqib on the Muslim-American experience after 9/11. | BuzzFeed Reader
  • “It concerns the evil that has haunted America from time to time in the forms of crime, racial and religious bigotry, economic hardship, labor strife and industrial pollution.” A1986 review of Stephen King’s classic. | Book Marks

Also on Lit Hub: The 2017 Windham-Campbell Festival starts tomorrow: get to know the winners, and read their work · Five Books Making News: poverty, politics, and Palestine · Read from Chantel Acevedo’s new novel, The Living Infinite.

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