LitHub Daily: January 27, 2017

TODAY:  In 1922, journalist and author Nellie Bly dies.

• Mariah Stovall on falling out of love with punk (and in love with lit). | Literary Hub
• The anxieties of a sophomore novelist: Jane Chang and Shilpi Somaya Gowda in conversation. | Literary Hub
• The anxieties of a debut novelist: Porochista Khakpour on life, debt, and selling her first novel. | Literary Hub
• Joseph Kertes on returning home to the ghosts of his Hungarian childhood. | Literary Hub
• Art, activism, and Audre Lord: making New York City great. | Literary Hub
• “The drama of Wideman’s personal history can seem almost mythical, refracting so many aspects of the larger black experience in America, an experience defined less by its consistencies, perhaps, than by its many contradictions—the stunning and ongoing plurality of victories and defeats.” A profile of John Edgar Wideman. | The New York Times Magazine
• Alexandra Kleeman on what’s visible and what’s invisible in America, the texture of the internet and of social media, and Duck Dynasty. | | Bookanista
• “I realised that it is the central force of a poem, that it wants every word to bear an intense meaning.” An interview with Ishion Hutchinson. | Catch News
• On the life and work of Mark Baumer, “someone for whom activism was both a life style and a form of self-expression.” | The New Yorker
• “Nineteen Eighty-Four does not pastiche a world ravaged by capitalism and ruled by celebrities—the kind of world that could lead to the election of someone like Trump.” Why Nineteen Eighty-Four does not map onto our current historical moment (alternatively: why it does). | New Republic, The New York Times
• Beyond the mind: 10 poems from four Russian Futurist poetry books are now available online. | Hyperallergic
• On the “visceral pleasure” and storied history of book hoarding. | The Guardian

Also on Lit Hub: Finally, college sophomores can say “Orwellian” and be right · Further evidence of a barely literate president · From Abby Fabiaschi’s new novel, I Liked My Life.

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