LitHub Daily: July 31, 2015

TODAY: In 1703, Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers. 

• Jennine Capó Crucet on turning her fear and frustration as a first-generation college student into fiction. | Literary Hub
• Blind submissions don’t eliminate the literary biases of editors; we must actively work to overcome our cultural conditioning. | Apogee Journal, The James Franco Review
  
• Didion fever: an interview with the biographer of everyone’s favorite “perfect advertisement for herself.” | i-D
• Creating a fugitive form: on Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls, the avant-garde as a game of friends, and the new intermedia. | The Millions
• The CW is developing a gritty, dystopian Little Women series, the description they elected to go with when Pretty Little Liars with bonnets did not test well. | Flavorwire
• Dismantling the patriarchy, one novel at a time: writing forgotten women back into history. | Vanity Fair
• This week marked the 88th birthday of John Ashbery, poet, translator, visual artist, and Nell Zink character. | Biographile
• On the zigzagging, digressive fiction of Argentinean novelist Alan Pauls. | NYRB
• “The further we leap beyond our own identities… the more the likelihood of encountering preconceived notions.” On writing beyond one’s own ethnicity. | The Los Angeles Review of Books

Also on Literary Hub: Comyns, Berlin, Metcalf: Masterworks of life on the margins, reissued · Mat Johnson’s Loving Day in ten quotes · A NSFW excerpt from Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk

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