LitHub Daily: April 29, 2015

TODAY: In 1852, the first edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published, an auspicious occurrence for wordsmiths throughout the demesne. 

• When Antonio Ruiz-Camacho began writing in English at 35, he wondered “Why is it uninvited instead of non-invited?” | Literary Hub
• “The people now calling for nonviolence… can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death and so they appeal for calm.” Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to official calls for nonviolence in Baltimore. | The Atlantic
• The Pratt Library has remained open to provide support to the people of Baltimore; they are accepting donations here. | Enoch Pratt Free Library
• “Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence.” Elena Ferrante on sincerity, the energy of writing, and self-promotion. | Harper’s Magazine
• The double life of Finnegans Wake (darling of academia, generally unreadable) has been reconciled through hypertext. | The Guardian
• The War of the Worlds, our first Viral Media Event, similarly anticipated fun Internet trends. | Vanity Fair
• “The most beautiful part of your body / is where it’s headed.” Ocean Vuong reads his poem “Someday I’ll love Ocean Vuong.” | The New Yorker
• Kim Gordon vs. Courtney Love: on two rock icons’ relationships to feminism, class, and vulgarity. | n+1
• On the failed, gender-fluid utopia offered by the 60s unisex clothing movement. | The Boston Review
• Free love, fame, and family ties: the first-ever dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. | Flavorwire
• “I’m interested in that murky zone where the truth is so outrageous as to be unbelievable, and in… translating that sense of barely real truth into fiction without sacrificing its impact.” An interview with James Hannaham. | Full Stop
• The winners of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize from Africa and the Pacific. | Granta

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