LitHub Daily: May 5, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1927, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse was published.
- Maggie Nelson says that The Argonauts “wasn’t a book I was aiming to write.” | Literary Hub
- And for more Nelson: “‘All happy families are alike,’ a straight man once said.” On Maggie Nelson’s examination of queerness, family structure, and selfhood. | Vulture
- I am not a joke: Sheila Heti’s short story on death, loneliness, and figuring out why the chicken crossed the road. | The New Yorker
- On the eve of McSweeney’s 18th birthday it will turn into a nonprofit, but only with your help. Donate to its Kickstarter, reap your quirky rewards, and help maintain the vibrancy of independent publishing. | Kickstarter
- Don’t let them read lit: United Airlines is launching Rhapsody, an in-flight literary magazine that will be available to their first-class and business-class customers (but not you other plebeians). | The New York Times
- The NYRB edition of Eileen Chang’s The Naked Earth offers a new generation of readers the opportunity to meet yet another precursor to Joan Didion. | The Millions
- Colm Tóibín on the indispensability of PEN, literature flourishing in barren places, and longing for home. | Electric Literature
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the danger of a single story, American poverty, and non-traumatic childhoods. | The Wall Street Journal
- A good way to educate your kids while ensuring that they never demand a birthday surprise again: on addressing death in children’s books. | Slate
- A short story by Dolan Morgan:“‘You know what’s funny?” the Replacement says. ‘Soon it will be Michael that dangles from my body.’” | Midnight Breakfast
- To continue with the uplifting and lighthearted nature of today’s LitHub Daily: love is a lie. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
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