Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2017

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1925, The New Yorker debuts.
  • There’s no need to be rude: Rachel Cusk on truth, politeness, and what unkind language reveals about society. | The New York Times
  • “There are other ways of telling stories, and other ways of staging history, that other playwrights did better.” Against the perception that Shakespeare was a singular genius. | The New Yorker
  • 34 works by women of color to read in 2017, including Valeria Luiselli, Edwidge Danticat, and Jenny Zhang. | Electric Literature
  • The world will be Tlön: On the parallels between Voldie’s list of “underreported” terrorist attacks and Borges’ imagined construction of a false, alternate reality. | n+1
  • On the slowly vanishing, gender-specific language Nüshu, which allowed women to “keep autobiographies, write poetry and stories, and communicate with ‘sworn sisters.’” | Atlas Obscura
  • Where truth fails, fiction flourishes: On the “lost literary genius” of Carson McCullers, who would have turned 100 this Sunday. | The Guardian
  • After an interview in which he appeared to condone pedophilia emerged, Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal has been cancelled. | Publishers Weekly

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