LitHub Daily: April 21, 2016

TODAY: In 1910, Mark Twain boards that great steamboat in the sky. 

• If Jane Eyre came out today would it be marketed as genre? | Literary Hub
• Charlotte Brontë may have started the fire, but Jean Rhys burned down the house: Bridget Read on the limits of Brontë feminism. | Literary Hub
• Searching for salvation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. | Literary Hub
• The conclusion of Mitchell Jackson’s autobiographical documentary, The Residue Years. | Literary Hub
• In honor of National Poetry Month, ten designers animated the poetry of Tracy K. Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and others. | The Washington Post
• A 900-page manga-style biography, C.D. Wright’s final collection, and more: 17 highly anticipated summer books. | Publishers Weekly
• On John D’Agata’s and David Shields’ lofty ambitions for the lyric essay, freed from the tyranny of both make-believe and fact. | Harper’s Magazine
• A collection of new Irish writing, including work by Kevin Barry, Emma Donoghue, and Belinda McKeon. | Granta
• “If [Kwan’s] books are free of clichés, they’re also free of any sense of their characters as real, breathing, complicated people.” On Crazy Rich Asians, Pearl S. Buck, and the importance of multiple, multi-faceted narratives. | BuzzFeed Reader
• Poetry is the metronome of the Cuban soul: A Cuban poetry primer curated by Ilan Stavans. | FSG Work in Progress
• “Winterson’s work offered me a safe house in my war with my own body.” How hearing Jeanette Winterson speak at AWP saved SJ Sindu’s life. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “There’s so much in Shakespeare that I think anything is possible.” Jillian Keenan on weaving together spanking and Shakespeare. | The Toast

Also on Literary Hub: A Buddhist cult for western children: my life in a Buddhist cult with “the master” · On the literature of cyborgs, robots, and other automata · The Bronte sisters’ first appearance in print: from Deborah Lutz’s The Bronte Cabinet

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