LitHub Daily: April 7, 2015
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TODAY: In 1889, Gabriela Mistral, the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, was born.
- Gabriela Mistral, the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was a poet, educator, and feminist; one of the best-known Latin American poets of her time. | The Poetry Foundation
- Is Hurricane Katrina responsible for the upsurge of dystopian literature? | Flavorwire
- “Observe as these hopeless automatons fulfill their simple functions and seek fleeting connections with other souls:” Robots and the work of T.S. Eliot. | The Toast
- An excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut The Sympathizer. | Bloom
- On textiles, identity, and femininity in women’s writing. | Jacket2
- A reflection on the brutal murder of Washiqur Rahman and the burdens of free speech. | The New Yorker
- The books that most influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez, compiled. | Brainpickings
- As it turns out, the pen is mightier than the gun, too. | Page Six
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