
LitHub Daily: January 3, 2017
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1911, novelist, short-story writer, and poet Alexandros Papadiamandis dies.
- The correspondence of James Tiptree, Jr. (who was really Alice Sheldon, “hyper-masculine” sci-fi genius). | Literary Hub
- Don’t miss John Berger’s wonderful conversation with Paul Holdengraber, from this past November. Berger died on Monday at the age of 90. | Literary Hub, The Guardian
- Ten small-press recommendations from Dallas’s Deep Vellum. | Literary Hub
- Lisa Levy sits down with professor turned crime-writing puzzle master, James Carse. | Literary Hub
- “Did Plimpton realize that he was making the defiantly leftist Hemingway into a US propaganda tool, even vaguely?” On Ernest Hemingway’s Paris Review interview. | Guernica
- On the novels and belated English reception of Carmen Boullosa, “simply, one of the great writers of our time.” | Full Stop
- That he would parlay his notoriety into some sort of book deal is an unsavory, if inevitable, prospect: On Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal. | The New Yorker
- On Beryl Bainbridge, Angela Carter, and other “female writers whose work has most recently come in for enthusiastic appraisal.” | The Guardian
- Why we continue to read and publish poetry, “language that’s focused in such a way that true meaning and emotion is redolent in the air.” | The New York Times
- There’s a tangle between weakness and vulnerability: An interview with André Alexis. | The Rumpus
- A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Handmaid’s Tale, and beyond: On TV’s most anticipated literary adaptations for 2017. | Electric Literature
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