
LitHub Daily: October 1, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1867, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is published.
- Sloane Crosley on battling novel dysmorphia, realizing her 700-page first novel was not so big after all. | Literary Hub
- A conversation with Jonathan Franzen, who just wants everyone to have a good time. | Literary Hub
- Unlike a lot of unfortunate recent conceptual work, Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus is an actual poetic interrogation of racism and misogyny. | Public Books
- In which Hemingway’s love triangle sounds exactly like you thought it would: “Hadley submissive, willing, a follower. Pauline explosive, wildly demonstrative, in charge, mounts me.” | Smithsonian Magazine
- “Who knows, maybe death sounds like this.” New fiction from Scott Cheshire. | Catapult
- In case a tsunami of think pieces has attempted to convince you otherwise, books by queer authors and authors of color remain disproportionately banned. | Flavorwire
- Hope for the punctuation impaired: you can count Wordsworth among those confounded by commas. | The Guardian
- Doomsday prophets, dustbowls, and DIY half-pipes: on Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus. | NPR
- “Self-deception and pretense and lies plague every art form.” An interview with Mary Karr. | The Rumpus
- Revisiting William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City, a Victorian horror story and the spiritual prequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.” | Public Domain Review
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