LitHub Daily: May 27, 2015

TODAY: In 2008, Peter Matthiessen told Charlie Rose that he “used The Paris Review” as a cover for his CIA activities, later describing the episode as “a youthful folly.”

• Remembering Kent Haruf, mentor. | Literary Hub
• John Ashbery has a new poetry collection out in which he, like the rest of us, cannot help but talk about the Kardashians. | The New Yorker
• In case you haven’t quite reached your fill of depressing statistics about gender in publishing, it turns out that books about women don’t win awards. | Nicola Griffith
• With plenty of time to spare, Margaret Atwood has handed in her manuscript, to be published after we’re all dead (2114). | The New York Times
• There are many ways to die in Florida (lightning, sharks, cannibals, cat-eating lizards, etc.). | The Millions
• Finding a middle ground between mandating trigger warnings and the “casual abdication of male responsibility for sexual assault” when teaching Classics. | Jezebel
• Sexy vampires, reworked fairy tales, and female desire: the introduction to Angela Carter’s collected stories, by Kelly Link. | Guernica
• “Preserved in a state of total purity, is the intolerable crackling of crostini in the dead man’s mouth.” An excerpt from Alan Pauls’s A History of Money. | The White Review
• Writing with the voice of a visual artist: on the undervalued beauty of Silvina Ocampo’s stories and poetry. | Electric Literature

Also on Literary Hub:  Jeff Vandermeer: Is Michael Cisco the America’s Kafka? · A new poem by Frank Bidart · An excerpt from Kent Haruf’s Plainsong

 

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