LitHub Daily: July 24, 2015

TODAY: In 1900, the “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald is born. 

• 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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