LitHub Daily: April 27, 2015

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TODAY: In 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of feminist philosophy and Mary Shelley, was born. 
  • Jamie Kornegay is a method writer, experiments with burning bones. | Literary Hub
  • “What the novel needs again is tension. And the best source for that tension is serialization.” A case for serializing novels as a method to resuscitate the publishing industry. | The Washington Post
  • Newly released documents indicate that Federico García Lorca was killed on government orders. | The Guardian
  • “The city’s libraries have more users than major professional sports, performing arts, museums, gardens and zoos– combined,” yet they lack capital funding. | The New York Times
  • Describe the life of a great self-describer: on the difficulty of writing Saul Bellow’s biography. | The Atlantic
  • In truth, we are all just characters in the Karl Ove Knausgaard story that is life (even you, Jeffrey Eugenides). | The New York Times
  • Fifteen formerly unpublished poems, including works by John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, and Anne Waldman. | Frieze Magazine
  • “If you resolve the aesthetic issues in any given piece, you’ve also worked out the psychological ones, albeit through the back door.” An interview with Maggie Nelson. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
  • An argument against the emphasis placed on youth in acknowledging and accrediting emerging writers. | The New York Times
  • “I’m writing for black people… I don’t have to apologize or consider myself limited.” An interview with Toni Morrison. | The Guardian
  • On the lasting significance and relevance of Sappho, who “still haunts and surprises us.” | NYRB
  • Acknowledging “the gap between what really was or is, and what is said about it”: on the poetry and translations of Sawako Nakayasu. | Hyperallergic
  • Measuring dicks, both literally and metaphorically: on Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s sexual anxieties. | The Paris Review

 

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