LitHub Daily: June 20, 2016

TODAY: In 1786, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, one of the founders of French romantic poetry, is born. 

• Ten Arab women writers we’d love to see translated. | Literary Hub
• The next wave in publishing? Indie presses are opening indie bookstores, and it is good. | Literary Hub
• Remembering the great James Salter, a year after his death. | Literary Hub
• On Ethel Rosenberg, mother to two sons. | Literary Hub
• “The objective for me is to find a language that tells the reader something hard to define about the texture of each character’s consciousness.” An interview with Adam Haslett. | The Guardian
• Francine Prose on Frankenstein’s origins, an “ur-writer’s colony from hell.” | New Republic
• Once there were femme fatales, and now there are girls: Why women are writing today’s best crime fiction. | The Atlantic
• “Rich’s refusal to be an archetype of femininity made her an archetype of feminism.” On the collected poems of Adrienne Rich. | The New Yorker
• On emotional labor and the indefinite boundary between sex work and dating, as examined through Labor of Love, The Real Housewives, and Lemonade. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• In which a dad who had abandoned fiction twenty-five years prior falls in love with Jane Eyre. | The Hairpin
• Seeing “women as they relate to each other, as living in webs of relationships with each other:” Reading the poetry of D.M. Aderibigbe. | The New Inquiry
• Margaret Atwood has won the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for her “work championing environmental concerns.” | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Big Blue Marble and its deep commitment to diversity · An accidental garden: Deena Goldstone on bringing produce to a parking lot · From Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl, a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

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