
LitHub Daily: May 29, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1851, Sojourner Truth delivers the “Ain’t I A Woman” speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention.
- “What I do is not magical realism. I do realistic magic.” An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky. | Literary Hub
- Alabaster roundups year after year: Roxane Gay on living the Groundhog Day of continually discussing, without result, the lack of diversity in publishing. | NPR
- “Every time our class met, it seemed, there was another black victim of a shooting in the news.” On teaching James Baldwin and Richard Wright in the Ferguson Era. | The New Republic
- Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation names Camus’s nameless Arab and examines the condition of contemporary Algeria. | The Los Angeles Times
- A rare proof of The Bell Jar was found “stewing in [its] own sour air” in a spare room; it is expected to sell for thousands. | The Guardian
- Two clips from the forthcoming Macbeth film, henceforth known as “the Scottish movie.” | GalleyCat
- Unsurprisingly, defecation enthusiast Karl Ove Knausgaard found “the embarrassing episodes” of My Struggle to be “a pleasure to write.” | Electric Literature
- Gloria Steinem, fish without a bicycle, is publishing her first book in twenty years. | Entertainment Weekly
- “Is someone who looks like Gary Shteyngart getting better treatment than you?” A helpful flowchart, if you’re having trouble telling whether you’re at BEA or the world’s worst airport. | Tumblr
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