LitHub Daily: February 18, 2016

TODAY: In 1934, Audre Lorde is born in New York City.

• Ten more writers nobody reads: bigger, more obscure, less read. | Literary Hub
• The pretty, the dead, the unexpected: on the influential women of Oscar Wilde’s life. | Literary Hub
• Pls help RT. This is my missing bro Furo Wariboko in the pic. He left home Monday morn & no news of him since. An excerpt from A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass. | Electric Literature
• Yann Martel on the matrix of representation, modern-day Jane Austens, and that difficult artifice called The Novel. | Asymptote Journal
• “In the pressure cooker of his hellish life, Cervantes heated up his Quixote, which he then served to the hankering masses.” How Miguel de Cervantes reinvented fiction. | Flavorwire
• Yahdon Israel and Jess Row discuss arbitrary categories, writing into trouble, and Rachel Dolezal. | The New Inquiry
• “I think poetry creates a space where we don’t have to clear our throats, where we can be as strange and obsessed as we actually feel.” An interview with Ocean Vuong. | Split This Rock
• On Raduan Nassar, a Brazilian recluse who hasn’t published a book in 30 years and is becoming a sensation in English translation. | The Independent
• “Women, who are also writing, and being translated and being read, are not considered part of the problem or the solution, because they are more or less invisible.” Making absent female Latin American writers present. | Full Stop
• “I was this brown girl living in the projects who discovered that I could escape via books and my imagination.” An interview with t’ai freedom ford, the inaugural instructor of BookUp’s LGBTQ program. | National Book Foundation

Also on Literary Hub: 30 Books in 30 Days: counting down the NBCC finalists with David Biespiel on Mary Beard’s SPQR · Tobias Caroll on writing history and ideology into fictional lives · How to give the wrong impression: from Katherine Heiny’s Single, Carefree, Mellow

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