
LitHub Daily: July 1, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1804, novelist George Sand was born; what a brave man she was, and what a good woman (via Turgenev).
- The true adventures of a Faeroese poet-hero in America [WARNING: contains drunkeness and children’s books] | Literary Hub
- David Foster Wallace, unstable commodity and cult figure, now belongs to no one and everyone. | Vulture
- Discovering that, through the power of Pinterest, churches, bed & breakfasts, and the Internet itself, your “truly, deeply rotten sentence” has gone viral. | The Paris Review
- Revealing racism’s masquerades: Claudia Rankine on Citizen, which “calls up the reality of the brutality” of prejudice. | The Guardian
- Paul Beatty on learning to read signage, the impotence of intoxicants, and detecting bullshit. | Full Stop
- On being held emotional hostage by the overwhelming sadness of underwhelming books. | The Millions
- Nell Zink on pubic hair as intimidation tactic, artistic posturing, and her plans for world domination. | VICE
- The sentence became a device in the mid-1500s; Ben Metcalf wields his with “extraordinary interest and beauty.” | Oxford American
- Summer books to look forward to (and more to read while you wait). | Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Entropy
Also on Literary Hub: A poem by Eileen Myles · For Canada Day, writers to read from your neighbour [sic] to the north · On the continued segregation of American letters · What it looks like to enlist: an excerpt from Soldier Girls
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