
LitHub Daily: July 24, 2015
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- Tributes to the novelist Robert Stone, who died in January, from fellow pranksters and writers including Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, and Ann Beattie. | Literary Hub
- Ernest Hemingway’s proto-standing desk, T.S. Eliot’s attempts at countouring, and other strange habits of renowned writers. | The Guardian
- Women writers, unlike their male counterparts, tend to not jump immediately to rape, murder, and cannibalism in apocalyptic fiction. | The New York Times
- Goodnight, cruel world: James Franco and David Shields have written a book of imagined conversations with lo-fi banshee Lana Del Rey. | Flavorwire
- “My publishers insisted that feminism is dead, there’s no black readers, and the ideal reader is a little old lady from Pasadena.” Revisiting Michele Wallace’s Black Macho. | VICE
- Get your tabs ready: nearly 100 exceptional pieces of journalism from 2014. | The Atlantic
- On the irrepressible narrative of gender nonconformity in the Fun Home musical. | The New Inquiry
- From poetry to the Great Depression to prose: Raymond Chandler’s path to the American literary canon. | Biographile
- Creating something meaningful amid all this chaos: an interview with ZYZZYVA’s editor, Laura Cogan. | Electric Literature
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