LitHub Daily: March 11, 2016

TODAY: In 1959, A Raisin in the Sun becomes the first play written by an African American (Lorraine Hansberry) to show on Broadway. 

• Oscar Villalon reflects on the state of diversity in the book business. | Literary Hub
• Here are the things you should worry about while writing a novel. | Literary Hub
• The poetics of the apocalypse: Laura Sims and Kenneth Calhoun in conversation. | Literary Hub
• For the New York Times Magazine music issue, George Saunders considers Wilco while Marlon James dissects Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry.” | The New York Times Magazine
• Knausgaard season is upon us: a new excerpt from My Struggle: Book Five, with photographs by Asbjørn Jensen. | The New Yorker
• Cynthia Cruz on the “female poets who refuse to be silenced or, conversely, take their silence and use it”: Marguerite Duras, Herta Müller, and others. | Harriet
• Sarah Bakewell illuminates the influences behind Simone de Beauvoir’s iconic work of existentialism, The Second Sex. | Flavorwire
• The internet’s favorite Supreme Court justice is writing a book: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s My Own Words, co-authored with biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, will be released in January 2017. | The Guardian
• “This is the kind of broad generalization that one expects from an elementary school class making pilgrim hats before Thanksgiving break.” On the opportunism of J. K. Rowling’s “History of Magic in North America.” | Tor
• It’s not all sex and death: in praise of Thomas Pynchon’s secret love stories. | The Millions
• “As Latinos, and especially as Latino Americans, our grief systems work differently.” Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on Angel Dominguez’s poetry collection, Black Lavender Milk. | Jacket2

Also on Literary Hub: A Baltimore institution, after the fire: The Book Thing will go on · Interview with a gatekeeper: Grove Atlantic’s Editorial Director Elisabeth Schmitz · An excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates’s The Man Without a Shadow · 30 Books in 30 Days: Mark Rotella on Brian Seibert’s What the Eye Hears · Sir Richard Francis Burton’s flawed English translation: From  Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger

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