LitHub Daily: November 11, 2015

TODAY: In 1855, Søren Kierkegaard, existentialist philosopher and avid journaler, dies. 

• Against lousy Holocaust novels (and in praise of the unsung masterpiece we have to blame for them). | Literary Hub
• Elizabeth Gilbert on embracing the glorious mess: part two of her phone call with Paul Holdengraber. | Literary Hub
• “There is a big difference between being a writer and being an author. There’s also a potentially steep learning curve.” An interview with Angela Flournoy. | American Short Fiction
• Prepare to have your life changed 36 times over: Significant recommendations from various writers and editors. | Brooklyn Magazine
• Road tripping with a fallen hero: Retracing Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America to interrogate his blatant sexism. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “How did we come to place our faith in a symbol that is so ephemeral?” On the metaphor of the cloud and our perception of the Internet. | The New Yorker
• “Sucking all the women out of history creates an artificial narrative and leaves the story of literature only half told.” Remembering the forgotten early female novelists. | The New Statesman
• Make it flat, make it crack: On Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent, a novel deserving of the descriptor Dickensian. | Flavorwire
• An unpublished poem from an 18-year-old Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Xanga called “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things.” | The Guardian
• If you, like Lady Macbeth, need to take a break from “frightening children, writing letters in poisoned ink, and talking to statues,” here is a Shakespeare-based playlist. | Read it Forward

Also on Literary Hub: Mapping Huck Finn‘s Mississippi river journey · Julia Fierro on the origins of Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop · Five poems by Cynthia Cruz · From Rick Moody’s Hotels of North America

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