LitHub Daily: July 28, 2015

TODAY: In 1909, Malcolm Lowry, mezcal and volcano metaphors, is born. 

• The invention of the modern monster in fin-de-siecle London. | Literary Hub
• Margaret Atwood imagines three futures without oil, ranging from a mindful eco-paradise to a hellscape in which we eat our dogs. | Matter
• “Under the law of the market, freedom oppresses.” Excerpts from Eduardo Galeano’s history of humanity, Mirrors. | Guernica
• Nate Marshall, Kevin Coval, and Quraysh Ali Lansana discuss their poetry anthology for the hip-hop generation. | Gawker Review of Books
• “I don’t think it’s industry pressure, I think it’s the way we’re brought up.” Nicola Griffith on the scarcity of female narratives in literary fiction. | The Seattle Review of Books
• The much beloved, void-loving Clarice Lispector is finally “getting the Bolaño treatment.” | The New Republic
• On the manifestation of Colonel Sanders and Johnnie Walker, Western food and beverage deities, in the theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore. | Flavorwire
• Earth veins and ocean lungs: short fiction by William VanDenBerg. | Okey-Panky
• On the difficulty of understanding Arabic literature without understanding the Arabic literary tradition. | The National

Also on Literary Hub: Broadsided Press asks: can poetry survive in the wild? · The ten books making news this week: including Seuss, Didion, and Doctorow · An excerpt from Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows

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