LitHub Daily: March 1, 2016

TODAY: In 1873, Remington and Sons begin production of the first commercial typewriter. 

• Writer/superfan Alina Simone’s quest to discover why Madonna is hated in her hometown. | Literary Hub
• As Apple goes to Washington, Andrew Keen wonders why we trust corporations more than governments.  | Literary Hub
• Wise men vs. old women: a brief history of gendered ageism and presidential candidacies. | Literary Hub
• Many of the 2016 PEN Award winners were announced, and Toni Morrison will receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. | PEN America
• The recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, including Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Tessa Hadley, and Hilton Als, were also announced. | Windham Campbell Prizes
• “He had been the high priest in charge of my prayer of being a black person who wanted to exist on books and words alone.” Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah on visiting James Baldwin’s house. | BuzzFeed Books
• We Love You, Charlie Freeman, So Sad Today, and other books to read this month. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• Looking for Kafkas past (in biological snapshots) and present (in Lagos). | Flavorwire
• It is as if they live beneath the land: Michelle Hoover recommends ten works of rural fiction. | Electric Literature
• No longer just for “weirdo mystic[s]:” Jessa Crispin on the creative utility of the tarot. | The New Yorker
• “She has a hunger I have never experienced in anyone else.” A short story by Amitava Kumar. | Catapult
• The only thing better than a library is a library that is also an adorable animal battling illiteracy. | Al Jazeera

Also on Literary Hub: Race, theft, and magical electricity: an interview with Virginia Reeves · Books making news this week: critics, gods, and single ladies · 30 Books in 30 Days: Colette Bancroft on Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies · Not even the Donald has such small hands: translating the euphemisms from the Republican Debate · The end of the West: from Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads

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