LitHub Daily: May 13, 2016

TODAY: In 1907, Daphne du Maurier, author of the novel Rebecca and the short story “The Birds,” is born. 

• I am Jessa Crispin’s problem with publishing: Bethanne Patrick on careerism, criticism, and a life in books. | Literary Hub
• When two feminists of color fall in love: Ana Castillo on validation, rivalry, and other women. | Literary Hub
• Eight writing lessons from Hamilton: The Revolution. | Literary Hub
• Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love, has died at 70. | Los Angeles Times
• “With Rich came the formulation of an alternate poetic tradition that distrusted and questioned paternalistic, heteronormative, and hierarchical notions of what it meant to have a voice, especially for female writers.” Claudia Rankine on Adrienne Rich. | The New Yorker
• An interview with Lydia Davis, multilingual wordsmith, about her approach to translation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• I’m tired of abstraction / No one says what they mean / And people die from it: Five poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | PEN Poetry Series
• Pamela Erens discusses trauma, childbirth, and her new novel Eleven Hours. | Tin House
• “I asked everyone I met what ‘freedom’ meant. Fathers and children had very different answers.” An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich’s Second Hand Time. | The Times Literary Supplement
• Lucas Mann on the importance of the unsaid and erasing himself from his own memoir. | Catapult
• As easily dispersed as a word: why queer poetry is still vital—and powerful. | Flavorwire

Also on Literary Hub: How my best friend Willa Cather helped me beat stage fright · David L. Ulin on Los Angeles laureate Luis J. Rodriguez: “LA is a Great Poetry Town” · A sign: from Phaedra Patrick’s The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

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