LitHub Daily: April 20, 2015

TODAY: In 1841, Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. 

• Four poets on the legacy and influence of Amiri Baraka.| Literary Hub
• To ensure long-lasting literary distinction, die young, in a beautiful place, and at peace with your extended family. | The New Yorker
• Twitter mobs: not as bad as an actual beating, but still not great. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• A letter from e.e. cummings to Dr. Enzo Pound, mastermind forger. | The American Reader
• On watching time pass through old diaries (but still wanting to be “very pretty and smart and Alec and I love each other”). | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Revisiting John Berryman’s iconic and influential poetry. | The Rumpus
• “You have to be what you are not, what it is not possible for you to be, in order not to be slowly strangled by the laws arrayed against you.” Teju Cole on East Jerusalem. | The Guardian
• Seeking an identity for the “the most nowhere part of America” in William H. Gass, David Foster Wallace, and Etheridge Knight. | Electric Literature
• TEDWomen 2015 has announced its speakers, including Roxane Gay and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. | TED
• Was your weekend bigger than Watergate? | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Spilling guts: on haruspicy, or examining entrails as a method of divination. | NYRB
• A collection of short stories by America’s best short story writer, a chorus of drowsy men. | Flavorwire
• Charles Dickens Jr. forced Anthony Trollope to cut a quarter of The Duke’s Children; it has now been restored. | The Telegraph

 

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