LitHub Daily: April 8, 2016

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• Announcing the first ever winner of The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing… | Literary Hub
• Can the “literary” survive technology? Sven Birkerts on our changing brains and what comes next. | Literary Hub
• Alexander Pschera on the digital closeness between humans and animals, and birds as Facebook friends. | Literary Hub
• “Local news: the Iliad. What else.” A new poem by C.D. Wright. | Oxford American
• “The book offers a very specific respite, a place apart, a welcomingly unsocial medium.” An interview with the founder of the New York Review of Books, Edwin Frank. | The Paris Review
• On the “raw, passionate, and devastatingly honest” writing and lived feminism of Simone de Beauvoir’s protégé, Violette Leduc. | The Guardian
• “I thought all poets were preordained. The government decided. Obama or Bush or whatever said, ‘You, you, you.’” An interview with Ocean Vuong. | The New Yorker
• Some of the most anticipated, “compelling, challenging, [and] absorbing” books coming out from small presses this year. | Big Other
• “They’ve seen the whole arch, holed up in my bedroom when I was a little kid just trying to rhyme, trying to figure out how to write poems. And they’re seeing it all come to fruition now.” An interview with Ohio’s first ever Poet Laureate, Amit Majmudar. | NPR
• On the continued legacy of the BreakBeat Generation, one year after the publication of the groundbreaking collection The BreakBeat Poets. | The Consortium Bookslinger
• Learning to handle the “ignorance, confusion, shame, panic, the occasional bout of inchoate elation” that accompanies an unexpected payout: On Creative Capital’s financial literacy workshops for writers. | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Writing behind bars: the true tale of noir hero Malcolm Braly · “Le Messie,” the greatest violin no one’s ever heard · A 21st Century girl: from Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma: A Modern Retelling

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