LitHub Daily: September 23, 2016

TODAY: In 1862, Leo Tolstoy marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs. 

• The poet and the sculptor: when young Rilke moved to the big city and met Rodin. | Literary Hub
• But are you sure you want a baby? A side-by-side reading of Ian McEwan and Belle Boggs. | Literary Hub
• TV in the age of Trump: an interview with Emily Nussbaum. | Literary Hub
• Bouchercon 2016, New Orleans: favorite moments from this year’s crime fiction bash. | Literary Hub
• “I just think that praise is such an intense passion with our species… It’s part of the reciprocal contract, I guess, and surely it’s one of the things art is for.” A profile of Sharon Olds. | The New Yorker
• My very first workshop experience was as an infiltrator: Lidia Yuknavitch on her experiences in writing classes. | Tin House
• “When I decided to speak, I had a lot to say.” The trailer for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is now online. | Vulture
• Patrick Ryan offers advice for (and cold, hard truths about) short story writing. | Signature Reads
• “I’m one of many writers hoping that soon an era will dawn in which literature will either drop the current names for itself or find the right ones.” An interview with Jane llison. | Electric Literature
• How bad decisions make good fiction in the work of Jade Sharma, Elnathan John, and others. | Google Play
• 1950s graphics, eccentric outsider art, and the assured reality of UFOs: On “FLYING SAUCERS Are Real!,” a catalogue from the Jack Womack Flying Saucer Library. | 1843
• “to share whatever it is you’re experiencing… not a stickler for everyday reality so-called…” An excerpt from Kenward Elmslie’s recently reissued The Orchard Stories. | BOMB Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: The afro-feminist coloring book is here: from Makeda Lewis’s Avie’s Dreams · From The Carousel of Desire by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, translated by Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor · An engine to accelerate the real: from Michael Helm’s After James

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