LitHub Daily: March 3, 2016

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day

TODAY: In 1996, novelist Marguerite Duras dies in Paris. 
  • Kent Russell on the diminishing returns of freelance magazine writing. | Literary Hub
  • The toxic smog of the information age: “Scroogled,” a short story by Cory Doctorow. | Literary Hub
  • From inside the WI Innocence Project: a reading list on our broken criminal justice system. | Literary Hub
  • Impossible pages by and about Annie Dillard, “poet, essayist, novelist, humorist, naturalist, critic, theologian, collagist and full-throated singer of mystic incantations.” | The New York Times Magazine
  • “we knew just what kind of time could be had” 13 poems written by Bernadette Meyer between the ages of 21 and 25. | Jacket2
  • CNET will begin publishing “great short stories, with a tech twist” monthly; the first is by Michelle Richmond, who will be followed by Anthony Marra, Cristina García. and Nayomi Munaweera. | Technically Literate
  • This Bridge Called My Back, Gender Trouble, and beyond: 33 feminist works of criticism, fiction, and memoir, in honor of International Women’s Day. | Verso
  • It was like a dictation from a ghost: Alexander Chee on the Siren call of writing, George Sandism, and fiction’s manifestations in reality. | Asian American Writers’ Workshop
  • “You can arrest only the poets/ Not the poems/ Never.” On the arrest and trial of Maung Saungkha, a Burmese poet who wrote a risqué verse involving a tattoo, the president, and his penis. | The New Yorker
  • A. Igoni Barrett on responding negatively to Gregor Samsa, mixing comedy and cynicism, and finding his voice. | VICE
  • “There is a palpable hunger among the young to find a way to connect with the messy goings-on around them.” Githa Hariharan, Arunava Sinha, and Anjum Hasan discuss writing and publishing in India. | Public Books

Also on Literary Hub: The Grumpy Librarian recommends you embrace the middle brow · The defiant magic of author, artist, and activist Molly Crabapple · 30 Books in 30 Days: Elizabeth Taylor on Terry Alford’s Fortune’s Fool · Feel like this: From Rob Roberge’s memoir, Liar

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