
LitHub Daily: July 21, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1899, Ernest Hemingway is born.
- Poison control, sheep, fried eggs on corn flakes, and fire alarms: a tour diary by Rebecca Dinerstein for her debut novel, The Sunlit Night. | Literary Hub
- On the xe-xe-xe inducing early fiction of Anton Chekhov, he of flashing eyes and twinkling lips. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- The controversy surrounding Harper Lee continues, this time with a healthy dose of sexism. | The Guardian
- Flee, Think, Feel: Jessa Crisipin on the colonialist tendencies and regressive gender norms of travel writing. | The Boston Review
- On Talk, Linda Rosenkrantz’s “repellently raunchy” meta-intervention into the lives of women and gay men, complete with S&M, periods, and masturbation. | The Millions
- How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jewish secretary, perhaps, helped diminish his anti-Semitism. | The New Yorker
- When Ben Marcus wants to be “ambushed, captured, thrust into a strange and vivid world, and tossed aloft until [he] cannot stand it,” he reads a short story. | Electric Literature
- On what would have been his 90th birthday, an excerpt from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. | Verso Books
- Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore, “a place for treasure hunters and lost souls as much as bibliophiles” and home to nearly 100,000 books, will close next year. | The New York Times
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