LitHub Daily: May 12, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1215, English barons serve an ultimatum (and shade) to King John, that will lead to the agreement of Magna Carta.
- Yitzhak Gormezano Goren wrote Alexandrian Summer in 1978; he reflects on the process of resurrecting the novel 37 years later as it’s translated into English for the first time. | Literary Hub
- Hemingway would be so proud: this year’s #TwitterFiction Festival has begun, will feature authors such as Margaret Atwood, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Celeste Ng. | Twitter Fiction Festival
- Over the past decade, New York City has cut funding for libraries by 20%; let them know that we can withstand the garbage stench but not the loss of such valuable cultural institutions. | NYPL
- “I hope you don’t wear your hoodie up at night, not when it’s dark, and if we’re not with you.” On America’s rigid and regressive relationship with race. | AGNI
- An article that earnestly and admiringly describes the “literary erection” that Haruki Murakami engenders. | The Puritan
- What existential state is poetry in now? It’s so hard to keep up. | The Huffington Post
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on social media as a tool of silencing and America’s desire for comfort over truth. | The Guardian
- To further that point: “No one ever promised that the truth would be comforting. History… is a slaughterhouse.” Is hypersensitivity a plague? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Little government on the prairie: how Laura Ingalls Wilder became a libertarian matriarch. | TIME Magazine
- This short story has everything: tweens, sexting, aquariums. | The New Yorker
- Benedict Cumberbatch, everyone’s favorite mid-morph Animorph, is reading “The Metamorphosis” in honor of the 100-year anniversary of its publication. | BBC
- The pin is the thing: Eley Williams on rosettes, in response to Britain’s general election. | 3:AM Magazine
Also at Literary Hub: Twin Peaks, so boring, so beautiful · The new losers of literature · Rakoff dishing on Salinger
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