LitHub Daily: June 22, 2016

TODAY: In 1964, the US Supreme Court overturns a lower court ruling that found Tropic of Cancer to be obscene. 

• Dorthe Nors on the invisibility of middle-aged women. | Literary Hub
• Virginia Heffernan on the hallucinatory splendor of the internet. | Literary Hub
• 5 important works of eco-fiction you need to read. | Literary Hub
• The dystopian future in which everyone is the boss: on the blurring lines between worker, manager, employer, and employee. | Literary Hub
• Laurie Anderson on the time she invented a sport with Anne Carson: part two of her phone call with Paul Holdengraber. | Literary Hub
• “The understanding of gender that Gender Trouble suggests is not only recognizable; it is pop.” A profile of Judith Butler, featuring an infographic of cats explaining gender performativity. | The Cut
• “A war doesn’t end simply because we say it does, and a war isn’t simply the things that happen on the battlefield… To me, war is a much more expansive beast.” Speaking with Viet Thanh Nguyen. | The New York Times
• “I knew that if I wrote—other people exploded.” Reporting from a discussion between Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Sonia Sanchez. | Elle
• Voltaire the scammer: How the French philosopher made a fortune by outsmarting one of the earliest lotteries. | Lapham’s Quarterly
• Diane Seuss on storing metaphorical root vegetables, the tension between lushness and compression, and girlhood surviving manhood. | Divedapper
• “They walked a delicate line between impossibly terrifying and terrifyingly possible.” Carmen Maria Machado on reading the novels of Lois Duncan. | The New Yorker
• Joakim Zander and Emelie Schepp discuss Nordic noir, the reflection of a paradise lost. | Electric Literature
• On the “long, turbulent relationship between reading and eating” and the moral implications of “devouring” literature. | Aeon

Also on Literary Hub: The writer’s blessing and curse: the role of the memory keeper · Svetlana Alexievich‘s history of human feelings · They tried to kill me: from Alexis M. Smith’s Marrow Island

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