
LitHub Daily: September 22, 2015
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1835, Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
- Honor Moore untangles a life-long obsession with her hair, which by all accounts, is beautiful. | Literary Hub
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams died on Sunday at age 78. | The New York Times
- Junot Díaz on the legacy of white supremacy, convoking his nation, and advocating for the magic that is reading. | The Los Angeles Times
- John Freeman (an editor at Literary Hub) is launching an “illustrious new literary journal;” the first issue features writing from Haruki Murakami, Lydia Davis, Louise Erdrich, and more. | Vogue
- Reason had to go out the window: on Marlon James’s “exhilarating and exhausting,” Man Booker shortlisted A Brief History of Seven Killings. | The Atlantic
- Deb Olin Unferth on the short stories of Joy Williams, nemesis of Alice Munro and descendant of Flannery O’Connor. | Bookforum
- Sculpting narratives out of experience: Claudia Rankine, Alain de Botton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the art of omission. | Ploughshares
- On Vera Caspary, a female crime writer who never imagined herself to be the victim of anything. | The New Yorker
- “We are not the only people who have noticed this mainly white room.” On the lack of diversity at literary readings and the environment it fosters. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
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