LitHub Daily: April 17, 2015
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TODAY: In 1397, Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
- Jennifer S. Cheng on the Japanese shut-in phenomenon of hikikomori and the rhythms of life as an American recluse. | Literary Hub
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Haruki Murakami have officially been designated as influential. | TIME Magazine
- Colorado is moving one step closer to becoming heaven on earth (now complete with rustic reading experience). | The New York Times
- Why Jane Austen triumphed where Frances Burney failed? The importance of the right kind of day jobs for writers. | The Millions
- A newly discovered passage that reveals L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time to have a more nuanced worldview: “Security is a most seductive thing… I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the greatest evil there is.” | Wall Street Journal
- Where did eenie, meenie, miny, mo come from, and why won’t it leave us be? | The Paris Review
- What does a woman’s face mean? On reading expressions like a text. | Boston Review
- Sarah Koenig’s wizardry aside, why our brains love Podcasts. | The Atlantic
- Move over, VIDA count, there are new depressing writing charts in town: the anatomy of writing awards. | Poets & Writers
- Frank Stanford was an epic death poet, dream poet, moon poet; his first volume of collected poems was published this month. | Nerve
- The gendered evolution of the exclamation point. | The Huffington Post
- Equivalence is impossible: on translating Chinese “volumes of bookness” into English books. | NYRB
- “Everywhere in his writing you can feel his heart beating. / This one made my heart pound.” Ariana Reines on Charles Bowden, Eduardo Galeano, and beautiful old women. | Harriet
- “When I type an em dash, I groan audibly… When I type an en dash, I shiver and coo.” How much of a grammar nerd are you? | Clickhole
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