
LitHub Daily: July 29, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1918, Mary Lee Settle, author and inaugurator of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is born.
- The search for C. S. Lewis’s one true love, Joy Davidman. | Literary Hub
- The Man Booker longlist was announced today: Enright, Yanagihara, Clegg, and ten others will be culled into a list of six in September. | The Man Booker Prize
- An hour of Lydia Davis and a Scandinavian man drinking wine, wearing cool little microphones, talking about stories. | Louisiana Channel
- Gigantic’s Women’s Issue is here and includes writing from Silvina Ocampo, Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Deb Olin Unferth. | Gigantic
- “The point of having a child is to be rent asunder, torn in two.” Sarah Manguso on writing, motherhood, and finding fulfillment. | Harper’s Magazine
- Becoming an extraordinary channel for grace: Mary-Beth Hughes describes the synthesis of Merce Cunningham and Penelope Fitzgerald in her writing. | The Atlantic
- “The Custom of the Country is everything Primates of Park Avenue is not and strains to be.” On the true Queen of Manhattan’s bored, brilliant, and bourgeois, Edith Wharton. | The Oyster Review
- “I want to stay in the world, but I’ve made the work that was in me to make.” The last days of Kathy Acker. | Hazlitt
- In which James Parker and Francine Prose decide who can’t sit with us (the literary canon). | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- How to write when words have failed: on loss and the language of grief. | Salon
Also on Literary Hub: A poem by John Ashbery · Hidden genre genius: a reading list · Elisabeth Donnelly on a deeper beach-read · Naomi Williams on the 18th-century La Pérouse expedition
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