Lit Hub Daily: February 13, 2017

TODAY: In 1881, the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.

• “There are beautiful, very tiny literary and art forms in just about every medium I can think of.” An interview with 300 Arguments author Sarah Manguso. | Hazlitt
• Claire Kirch reports back on the political actions at AWP 2017: a march to the U.S. Capitol grounds, and a candlelight vigil in Lafayette Park, organized by the poetry and activist nonprofit Split This Rock. | Publishers Weekly
• The women were in love with the body’s seduction of itself: an excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s forthcoming memoir, Priestdaddy. | The New Yorker
• In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, three romance writers discuss self-publishing, writing sex scenes, and the future of the genre. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “You can think you are being a liberal democracy but then—bang—you’re Hitler’s Germany.” Margaret Atwood is not surprised that sales of The Handmaid’s Tale have soared under President Trump. | The Guardian
• Brexit, Norse gods, and Duran Duran: Sarah Lyall on Neil Gaiman at Town Hall. | The New York Times
• First it ate the appendix, and then the gall bladder. It ate in its sleep, chewing slowly: flash fiction by Meg Pendoley. | Tin House
• “[T]he question of freedom—who is, isn’t, and never was free—has taken on increasing urgency.” Salamishah Tillet on a spate of 20th century novels about slavery. | Public Books

 

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