Lit Hub Daily: February 16, 2017

TODAY: In 1992, Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer, dies.

Worse than Watergate? Evan Fleischer on the literature of impeachment · 10 essential reads about the fall of Nixon · Lessons from Louis XIV: mass deportations will ruin your country. | Literary Hub
Owning the aphorism: on the succinct brilliance of Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Rivka Galchen. | Literary Hub
Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil on drawing through the trauma. | Literary Hub
How bookstores are helping to mobilize resistance against Trump. | The New York Times
“I do think that relationships function because we play roles.” An interview with Katie Kitamura. | Jezebel
Krysten Ritter—of Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones fame—has sold her debut novel, a psychological thriller entitled Bonfire, to Crown Archetype. | Entertainment Weekly
What does it mean to invoke Beyoncé? Morgan Parker on academia, black womanhood, and her new poetry collection. | NYLON
On nights like this, gravity had no power over Edgar: short fiction by Victor Lodato. | Granta
An infographic of U.S. Poet Laureates (and the presidents they served under), from Joseph Auslander to Juan Felipe Herrera. | My Poetic Side
“You’ve got to let yourself write freely, with a lot of joy and conviction.” George Saunders on his favorite passage in literature, from Anton Chekhov’s “Gooseberries.” | The Atlantic

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